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Gautam Buddha

by Dr. Zakir Naik

Gautama Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. His original name was Siddharth (meaning one who has accomplished). He was also called Sakyamuni, i.e. the sage of the tribe of Sakya. He was born in the year 563 B.C. in the village of Lumbini near Kapila Vastu, within the present borders of Nepal.

According to legend, an astrologer foretold his father, the king, that young Gautama would give up the throne and luxury and renounce the world the day he would see four things (i) an old man, (ii) a sick man, (iii) a diseased man and (iv) a dead man. Hence, the king confined Gautama in a special palace which was provided with all worldly pleasures. He was married at the age of sixteen to Yasoddhra.

At the age of 29 after the birth of his first son, Gautama on the same day saw an old man, a sick man, a diseased man and a dead man. The impact of the dark side of life made him renounce the world that same night and he left his wife and son and became a penniless wanderer.

He studied and practised Hindu discipline initially, and later, Jainism. For several years he observed rigorous fasting along with extreme self-mortification. On realising that tormenting his body did not bring him closer to true wisdom, he resumed eating normally and abandoned asceticism.

At the age of 35, one evening as he sat beneath a giant fig tree (Bodh tree), he felt that he had found the solution to his problem and felt that he had attained enlightenment. Thus, he came to be known as ?Gautama?, ?The Buddha?, or 'The Enlightened One'.

Later, he spent 45 years in preaching the truth that he felt he had discovered. He travelled from city to city bare-footed, clean-headed, with nothing more on his self than his saffron robe, walking stick and begging bowl. He died at the age of 80 in the year 483 BC.

Buddhism is divided into two sects viz. Hinayana and Mahayana.

I. BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES:

Historical criticism has proved that the original teachings of Buddha can never be known. It seems that Gautama Buddha?s teachings were memorized by his disciples. After Buddha?s death a council was held at Rajagaha so that the words of Buddha could be recited and agreed upon. There were differences of opinion and conflicting memories in the council. Opinion of Kayshapa and Ananda who were prominent disciples of Buddha were given preference. A hundred years later, a second council at Vesali was held. Only after 400 years, after the death of Buddha were his teachings and doctrines written down. Little attention was paid regarding its authenticity, genuineness and purity.

Buddhist Scriptures can be divided into Pali and Sanskrit Literature:

A. Pali Literature :

The Pali literature was monopolized by the Hinayana sect of Buddhism.

Tri Pitaka: The most important of all Buddhist scriptures is the TRI-PITAKA which is in Pali text. It is supposed to be the earliest recorded Buddhist literature which was written in the 1st Century B.C.

The TRI-PITAKA or Three Baskets of law is composed of 3 books: 

1.Vinaya Pitaka: "Rules of Conduct" : This is a book of discipline and mainly deals with rules of the order.

2. Sutta Pitaka: "Discourses" : It is a collection of sermons and discourses of Gautama Buddha and the incidents in his life. It is the most important Pitaka and consists of five divisions known as Nikayas. Dhammapada is the most famous Pali literature and contains aphorisms and short statements covering the truth.

3. Abhidhamma: "Analysis of Doctrine": This third basket contains meta physical doctrines and is known as Buddhist meta physicals. It is an analytical and logical elaboration of the first two pitakas. It contains analysis and exposition of Buddhist doctrine.

B. Sanskrit Literature:

Sanskrit literature was preferred by the Mahayana. Sanskrit literature has not been reduced to a collection or in Cannon like the Pali literature. Thus much of the original Sanskrit literature has been lost. Some were translated into other languages like Chinese and are now being re-translated into Sanskrit.

1. Maha vastu: "Sublime Story": Mahavastu is the most famous work in Sanskrit which has been restored from its Chinese translation. It consists of voluminous collection of legendary stories.

2. Lalitavistara: Lalitavistara is one of the holiest of the Sanskrit literature. It belongs to the first century C.E., 500 years after the death of Buddha. It contains the miracles which the superstition loving people have attributed to Buddha.

II TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA:

A. Noble Truths: 

The principal teachings of Gautama Buddha can be summarised in what the Buddhists call the "Four Noble Truths":

First - There is suffering and misery in life .

Second - The cause of this suffering and misery is desire.

Third - Suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire.

Fourth - Desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path.

B. The Noble Eight Fold Path:

(i) Right Views

(ii) Right Thoughts

(iii) Right Speech

(iv) Right Actions

(v) Right Livelihood

(vi) Right Efforts

(vii) Right Mindfulness

(viii) Right Meditation

C. Nirvana:

Nirvana' literally means "blowing out" or "extinction". According to Buddhism, this is the ultimate goal of life and can be described in various words. It is a cessation of all sorrows, which can be achieved by removing desire by following the Eight Fold Path.

III PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHISM IS SELF - CONTRADICTORY:

As mentioned earlier, the main teachings of Buddhism are summarised in the Four Noble Truths:

(i) There is suffering and misery in life.

(ii) The cause of suffering and misery is desire.

(iii) Suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire.

(iv) Desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path.

This Philosophy of Buddhism is self-contradictory or self-defeating because the third truth says "suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire" and the fourth truth says that 'desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path'.

Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. In short desire can only be removed by having a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. If you do not follow the Eight Fold Path, desire cannot be removed. It is self contradicting as well as self-defeating to say that desire will only be removed by continuously having a desire. 

IV CONCEPT OF GOD 

Buddha was silent about the existence or non-existence of God. It may be that since India was drowned in idol worship and anthropomorphism that a sudden step to monotheism would have been drastic and hence Buddha may have chosen to remain silent on the issue of God. He did not deny the existence of God. Buddha was once asked by a disciple whether God exists? He refused to reply. When pressed, he said that if you are suffering from a stomach ache would you concentrate on relieving the pain or studying the prescription of the physician. "It is not my business or yours to find out whether there is God ? our business is to remove the sufferings of the world".

Buddhism provided Dhamma or the "impersonal law" in place of God. However this could not satisfy the craving of human beings and the religion of self-help had to be converted into a religion of promise and hope. ::) ::) The Hinayana sect could not hold out any promise of external help to the people. The Mahayana sect taught that Buddha?s watchful and compassionate eyes are on all miserable beings, thus making a God out of Buddha. Many scholars consider the evolution of God within Buddhism as an effect of Hinduism.

Many Buddhists adopted the local god and thus the religion of "No-God" was transformed into the religion of "Many-Gods" - big and small, strong and weak and male and female. The "Man-God" appears on earth in human form and incarnates from time to time.  ??? ???
Buddha was against the caste-system prevalent in the Hindu society.

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Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path

1. not should
2. not desire to follow but awareness to follow

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However this could not satisfy the craving of human beings and the religion of self-help had to be converted into a religion of promise and hope.

of course not, u think buddhism, give human promises and hopes

yeah yeah yeah... read again please (specially about karma)

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Many Buddhists adopted the local god and thus the religion of "No-God" was transformed into the religion of "Many-Gods" - big and small, strong and weak and male and female. The "Man-God" appears on earth in human form and incarnates from time to time

who adopted who ???

ya didebat dibantah dibuktikan....ayo posting....

hihihi,kalo Buddhist dipake buat debat dari kacamata mereka yang selam,yah ga bakalan ketemu pointnya...

saya masukin lagi 1 ebook dari Harun Yahya, si kriminal tukang kibul, anti-barat, anti-evolusi, anti-materialism, pendukung kreasionis, self-claimed ilmuwan al-quran, dan anti-buddhis

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HARUN YAHYA

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Introduction

Buddhism: An Idolatrous Religion

Buddhism's Erroneous Beliefs

Buddhism and Materialist Western Culture

Could Buddhism be a True Religion
That's Become Distorted?

Conclusion: Truth Has Come,
and Falsehood Has Vanished

The Deception of Evolution
In the Name of God, Most Gracious Merciful

TO THE READER


A special chapter is assigned to the collapse of the theory of evolution because this theory constitutes the basis of all anti-spiritual philosophies. Since Darwinism rejects the fact of creation—and therefore, God's Existence—over the last 140 years it has caused many people to abandon their faith or fall into doubt. It is therefore an imperative service, a very important duty to show everyone that this theory is a deception. Since some readers may find the chance to read only one of our book, we think it appropriate to devote a chapter to summarize this subject.
All the author's books explain faith-related issues in light of Qur'anic verses, and invite readers to learn God's words and to live by them. All the subjects concerning God's verses are explained so as to leave no doubt or room for questions in the reader's mind. The books' sincere, plain, and fluent style ensure that everyone of every age and from every social group can easily understand them. Thanks to their effective, lucid narrative, they can be read at a one sitting. Even those who rigorously reject spirituality are influenced by the facts these books document and cannot refute the truthfulness of their contents.
This and all the other books by the author can be read individually, or discussed in a group. Readers eager to profit from the books will find discussion very useful, letting them relate their reflections and experiences to one another.
In addition, it will be a great service to Islam to contribute to the publication and reading of these books, written solely for the pleasure of God. The author's books are all extremely convincing. For this reason, to communicate true religion to others, one of the most effective methods is encouraging them to read these books.
We hope the reader will look through the reviews of his other books at the back of this book. His rich source material on faith-related issues is very useful, and a pleasure to read.
In these books, unlike some other books, you will not find the author's personal views, explanations based on dubious sources, styles that are unobservant of the respect and reverence due to sacred subjects, nor hopeless, pessimistic arguments that create doubts in the mind and deviations in the heart.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Now writing under the pen-name of HARUN YAHYA, he was born in Ankara in 1956. Having completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara, he studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, he has published many books on political, scientific, and faith-related issues. Harun Yahya is well-known as the author of important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, their invalid claims, and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and such bloody ideologies as fascism and communism.
His pen-name is a composite of the names Harun (Aaron) and Yahya (John), in memory of the two esteemed Prophets who fought against their people's lack of faith. The Prophet's seal on the his books' covers is symbolic and is linked to the their contents. It represents the Qur'an (the final scripture) and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), last of the prophets. Under the guidance of the Qur'an and the Sunnah (teachings of the Prophet), the author makes it his purpose to disprove each fundamental tenet of godless ideologies and to have the "last word," so as to completely silence the objections raised against religion. He uses the seal of the final Prophet, who attained ultimate wisdom and moral perfection, as a sign of his intention to offer the last word.
All of Harun Yahya's works share one single goal: to convey the Qur' an's message, encourage readers to consider basic faith-related issues such as God's Existence and Unity and the hereafter; and to expose godless systems' feeble foundations and perverted ideologies.
Harun Yahya enjoys a wide readership in many countries, from India to America, England to Indonesia, Poland to Bosnia, and Spain to Brazil. Some of his books are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat (Bosnian), Polish, Malay, Uygur Turkish, and Indonesian.
Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental in many people recovering faith in God and gaining deeper insights into their faith. His books' wisdom and sincerity, together with a distinct style that's easy to understand, directly affect anyone who reads them. Those who seriously consider these books, can no longer advocate atheism or any other perverted ideology or materialistic philosophy, since these books are characterized by rapid effectiveness, definite results, and irrefutability. Even if they continue to do so, it will be only a sentimental insistence, since these books refute such ideologies from their very foundations. All contemporary movements of denial are now ideologically defeated, thanks to the books written by Harun Yahya.
This is no doubt a result of the Qur'an's wisdom and lucidity. The author modestly intends to serve as a means in humanity's search for God's right path. No material gain is sought in the publication of these works.
Those who encourage others to read these books, to open their minds and hearts and guide them to become more devoted servants of God, render an invaluable service.
Meanwhile, it would only be a waste of time and energy to propagate other books that create confusion in people's minds, lead them into ideological chaos, and that clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in people's hearts, as also verified from previous experience. It is impossible for books devised to emphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people from loss of faith, to have such a great effect. Those who doubt this can readily see that the sole aim of Harun Yahya's books is to overcome disbelief and to disseminate the Qur'an's moral values. The success and impact of this service are manifested in the readers' conviction.
One point should be kept in mind: The main reason for the continuing cruelty, conflict, and other ordeals endured by the vast majority of people is the ideological prevalence of disbelief. This can be ended only with the ideological defeat of disbelief and by conveying the wonders of creation and Qur'anic morality so that people can live by it. Considering the state of the world today, leading into a downward spiral of violence, corruption and conflict, clearly this service must be provided speedily and effectively, or it may be too late.
In this effort, the books of Harun Yahya assume a leading role. By the will of God, these books will be a means through which people in the twentyfirst century will attain the peace, justice, and happiness promised in the Qur'an.

Buku Harun Yahya mah ga perlu digunakan sebagai pembanding, orang mah mau nulis saenak jidat juga sah-sah aja,mau tulis teknologi begini dan begitu lah,toh dia ga bisa sajikan bukti secara ilmiah,semua berdasarkan kitab yang diyakini...itu namaewa baka desu ne.

Buat yang mau bantah, yuuuk....
Aku dari dulu udah pengen bikin bantahannya tapi karena bukunya tebel dan banyak, gak ada waktu. Kalau bantahan disini bagus, akan dikompilasi kita jadiin buku tandingan. hehehehe.


The religion with God is İslam... (Qur'an, 3:19)

INTRODUCTION


Many people become excited at the idea of becoming "different" or more "original." In almost every society since the dawn of history, some individuals have tried to stand out and draw attention to themselves by their life style, clothing, hairstyles, or distinctive way of speaking. They've managed to stir up public reaction and attract interest at the same time.
In recent years, Western societies have seen the emergence of an unusual current that draws attention to itself by its rather strange life style. It's made up of individuals who want to attract attention by adopting Eastern culture, beliefs, and philosophies—of which the most important is Buddhism.
  Throughout the world, but especially in America and Europe, some individuals have been intrigued by Buddhism, spurred on mostly by the superstitious, secret, and awesome qualities they perceive in this religion. Generally, those who adopt Buddhism do so not because they believe in the logic of its philosophy, but because they're attracted by its "mystical" atmosphere, drawn to this superstition because it is presented to them as far more different and awesome than any other philosophy they encounter in their normal lives. For example, the story of how Buddhism came to be is related to them as a fantastic, mystic legend. Books and films about Buddhism depict Buddha as the source of a great mystery. Likewise, Buddhist priests are presented as possessors of secret, arcane knowledge. They fascinate Westerners with their exotic robes, shaved heads, style of worship, elaborate ceremonies, dwelling places, meditation, yoga and other such strange practices.
For these reasons, Buddhism is seized upon as an important tool by people who want to demonstrate that they are different from others in their society, and who want to project the image of having discovered of a valuable secret. If an ordinary person suddenly shaves his head one day, puts on a brightly-colored robe and begins to teach Buddhist doctrine using mystical words he never uttered before, he will certainly attract curious attention and be thought of as "original."
A number of celebrities have adopted Buddhism for similar purposes. They make speeches in Tibetan Buddhist robes to appear different from others, drawing attention to themselves perhaps to become even better known to their public. They visit Buddhist temples accompanied by Buddhist priests and also make propaganda for the Buddhist religion.
  You may have already learned a considerable amount about Buddhism and gained a general knowledge of it through both written and visual media. In this book, we'll examine Buddhism's superstitious character in the light of the Qur'an and let you see clearly this superstitious religion's more perverse aspects.
When we consider Buddhism's appearance, its scriptures, general beliefs, style of worship in the light of the Qur'an, we begin to see that its basic philosophy is founded on very deviant doctrines. Indeed, its worship contains strange practices leading its devotees to worship idols of stone and clay. As a belief, Buddhism is contrary to logic and intelligence. Countries where it has been adopted have mixed it with their own idolatrous ideas, traditions and local customs, joining it with myths and deviant ideas until it has evolved into a totally godless philosophy.
When fused with Brahmanism, Hinduism, Shintoism and other idolatrous Eastern religions, Buddhism has assumed a much darker form. Those who adopt this religion not because they believe it, but because they're attracted by the "secrets" of the Far East or just to draw attention to themselves, should realize that Buddhism contains perverse doctrines that can lead them to deny God, associate handmade idols with Him and lead a life of superstition. To ignore Buddhism's mindless aspects and espouse it just to be trendy and go along with others will result in great loss.
Those who make propaganda on behalf of Buddhism often present it as a means of salvation. Those who long to escape from a materialist society's hard, disputatious culture— along with its worries, anxieties, quarrels, pitiless rivalry, selfishness and falsehoods—resort to Buddhism as the way to achieve peace of mind, security, tolerance and a fulfilling life. But Buddhism is not, as it is generally thought to be, a belief that brings contentment. On the contrary, those who are taken into Buddhism are often drawn into a deep pessimism. Even people with a considerable level of education and modern worldview will become individuals who see nothing wrong with begging with their bowls in hand, who believe that in their next lives, human beings may be reborn as mice or cattle, and who expect help from idols carved from stone or cast in bronze. For these people, Buddhism's deviant beliefs inflict serious psychological damage. In countries where Buddhism is widespread, or in regions inhabited by many Buddhist priests, pessimism and gloominess are clearly prominent. ::) ::)
One basic reason for this is the laziness and indolence that Buddhism inculcates in its adherents. Because it lacks any faith in an eternal afterlife, Buddhism does not urge its devotees to be better or develop themselves, to beautify their environment, or to advance culturally. ::) ::)
Islam always urges its adherents to seek out and apply themselves to what is better and more beautiful. Islam's dynamic moral teaching requires people to research and learn, to develop themselves and be useful to their communities. In one verse of the Qur'an (35: 28), God says that "Only those of His servants with knowledge stand truly in awe of Him."
The only way to find true happiness and contentment in this world—to escape every kind of pessimism, unhappiness, and pitiless evil—is for people to submit themselves to God, our Creator, and lead lives that will win His approval. Our Lord, the only sovereign of Earth and Heaven has announced that for all people the way of salvation is to embrace the Qur'an, sent down as a guide to the true path. In the Qur'an (14: 1), God affirms, "... this is a Book We have sent down to you so that you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the permission of their Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy." Those who believe in idolatrous religious like Buddhism should realize that they have been misguided:

That is God, your Lord, the Truth, and what is there after truth except misguidance? So how have you been distracted? (Qur'an, 10: 32)

The religion with no god is Buddhism (xenocross:o,001)  ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ :P

http://www.buddhismaustralia.org/budislam.html

sanggahannya, tapi agak nyerang...

kok pake bahasa Inggris sih... T_T
w kan gak ngerti............. T_T
mohon ditranslate dongggg ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

About 2500 years ago, Buddhism arose in northeast India and, in time, extended its influence throughout Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Kampuchea, China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, and Nepal. Today, it has about 330 million followers.
Definitions of Buddhism have always varied, along with how Buddhists understand life's meaning. For some, Buddhism is a religion; others regard it as a sect or school of philosophy. But from its view of life and all its practices, it is ultimately clear that the doctrine of Buddhism is idolatrous and superstitious. Since Buddhism is an atheist religion that lacks any belief in God, it also rejects the existence of angels, the eternal afterlife, Hell, and the Day of Judgment.
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born in the Indian city of Kapilavastu and lived between 563 and 483 B.C. At this time, India's dominant religion was Brahmanism, the religion of Aryan invaders. According to the Aryans' rigid and unbreachable caste system, all of society was divided into four groups, each of which in turn was divided into sub castes. Brahman priests formed the very highest segment of society and they pitilessly oppressed the people of lesser status.
Gautama was born the son of a wealthy prince by the name of Suddhodana, in the noble Sakya family. After spending his youth in comfort and ease, Gautama left the palace at the age of 29 and began a mystic search that lasted until his death at the age of 80. During his lifetime, he established certain principles that over the course of time, evolved into the doctrine we now call Buddhism.
The word Buddha means "the awakened, or enlightened one," signifying the spiritual heights that Siddhartha Gautama is supposed to have attained. Those Buddhist teachings and texts that have come down to us do not date from the period in which he lived, but were written down between 300 and 400 years after his death. In the following pages of this book, we will examine these texts in detail and we will see that they contain false beliefs, practices that go beyond all logic and present Buddha perversely as an idol to be worshipped.


Those Who Associate Buddha with God

In its basic beliefs, philosophy and practices, this religion is idolatrous. Buddhists hold Buddha in a heightened sense of love, deep respect and fear, even accepting him as a god.
Although we have no documents from Buddha's time that suggest that he urged his followers to worship him; the Brahmans—who were already worshipping idols—quickly began to make statues of Siddhartha. And in time, those who nurtured an excessive love towards Buddha came to worship these idols and consider him a god.
However, all religions based on God's revelations adhere to a monotheistic faith that recognizes Him as single and unique. In the Qur'an (22: 34), God states, "Your God is One God, so submit to Him." To deny the supremacy of God and worship the idols of an ordinary person, as the Buddhists do, is described in the Qur'an as to "associate something with God." In hundreds of places in the Qur'an, God reminds us that this "association" is a very serious sin. For example:
God does not forgive anything being associated with Him, but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone who associates something with God has committed a terrible crime. (Qur'an, 4: 48)

   The word "associate," or shirk, means partnership. The Qur'an uses it in the sense of associating His creatures with Him, as in treating any thing, person, or any idea as equal to or higher than God. The idolater reveres whatever image, relic, or object that he associates with God more highly than he does God Himself, directing toward it all his love and respect, interest and adoration. The Qur'an (15:96;17: 39; 51: 51) refers to this perverse way of thinking as "setting up another god together with God."
The Islamic religion is based on the belief in the oneness of God (tawhid). God often repeats the phrase La ilahe illahu ("there is no other God but He"), which is the first condition of faith. Therefore, the most basic meaning of shirk is deviating from this truth into the mistaken idea that there are other beings besides God who possess "power and might." In the Qur'an, our Lord makes Himself known by describing His attributes and tells us in many verses in the Qur'an that there is no other god but He. In verse 59: 22-24, God reveals His sublime names in these words:
He is God—there is no god but Him. He is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible. He is the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.
He is God—there is no god but Him. He is the King, the Most Pure, the Perfect Peace, the Trustworthy, the Safeguarder, the Almighty, the Compeller, the Supremely Great. Glory be to God above all they associate with Him.
He is God—the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
God manifests His attributes for human beings to perceive. For example, He has endless mercy and manifests His attribute as the "Merciful" in human beings. His qualities can be seen in those people, although they do not enjoy these qualities as a result of their own efforts or merits. By themselves, no other beings can possess or create the attributes of God. To assert that they do have this ability is to "set up another god together with God." Like Buddhists, they make the mistake of associating His creatures with God, attributing some of His qualities to other, lesser beings.
For example, God is All-Seeing and knows "what is even more concealed." When someone acts in secret, with no one around, believing that no one sees him, our Lord does see him and knows everything that he does. He sees and knows every event that happens in the universe, down to its smallest details, because He is the One God Who created them all. In the Qur'an (6: 103), God affirms that, "Eyesight cannot perceive Him, but He perceives eyesight. He is the All-Penetrating, the All-Aware."
Wherever a person is, it's absolutely true that God is with him. God knows what you're thinking at this very moment, as you're reading these words. God tells us that He sees us wherever we are:

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Qur'an, 10: 61)
It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He knows what goes into the earth and what comes out of it, what comes down from heaven and what goes up into it. He is with you wherever you are—God sees what you do. (Qur'an, 57: 4)

This point reveals Buddhists' idolatrous understanding, as do many others. Buddha's followers regard him as all-seeing and all-knowing. The proliferation of statues of Buddha in countries where it is the dominant religion, and the eyes of Buddha painted on every temple all bear witness to Buddhists' deviant belief that Buddha sees them at every moment with his eyes made of stone or wood, and hears them with his wooden ears. For this reason, they fill their houses with his statues, in front of which they perform acts of reverence.
In this, they are acting contrary to intelligence and committing a grave sin. In the Qur'an (7: 195), God tells us that people who associate others with God are greatly deceived; and that whatever things they have made into gods have no power over anything: "Do they have legs they can walk with? Do they have hands they can grasp with? Do they have eyes they can see with? Do they have ears they can hear with?" Never forget, "idolatry" does not mean only the worship of material idols. Anyone who honors another person for his possessions, thinking that they belong to him and derive from some power of his own, deifies that person, not realizing that these transient objects are a test that God has posed for him. As God warns in the Qur'an (2: 165):
Among the people are those who take other than God as equals [to Him], loving them as they should love God. But those who believe have greater love for God. If only you could see those who do wrong at the time when they see the punishment, and that truly all strength belongs to God, and that God is severe in punishment.
Buddha was a powerless servant whom God created and tested in this world; he had no ability or will of his own to influence people. It was by God's will that he spoke, and he lived the life that God gave him, according to the fate that God had determined. Abraham's (peace be upon him) prayer in the Qur'an (26: 78-82) expresses most clearly the helplessness of human beings before God's absolute might:
He Who created me and guides me; He Who gives me food and gives me drink; and when I am ill, it is He Who heals me; He Who will cause my death, then give me life; He Who I sincerely hope will forgive my mistakes on the Day of Reckoning.
Buddha lived the fate that God had ordained for him, and when his time came, he died. It must not be forgotten that apart from God's will, no one can have faith; it is God Who guides human beings. Unless God wills it, no one can guide another to the right path. Again, it is God Who guides people toward truth and beauty. Invitations and communications influence the human heart only insofar as God wills it. Indeed, He is the only absolute power that must be magnified, adored and entreated for help. As God announced this truth in the Qur'an (22: 74): "They do not measure God according to His true power. God is All-Strong, Almighty."
The Qur'an gives a number of examples of people who worship idols. As just one example, the polytheist people of Abraham carved representations of their gods, worshipped them, and listened to their calls. In the Qur'an (21: 52-53), our Lord relates: "When he [Abraham] said to his father and his people, 'What are these statues you are clinging to?' they said, 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' "
As these verses show, human beings have adopted this kind of worship as an inheritance that their ancestors have passed down to them. Thus idol worship, no matter how illogical, can be a kind of social activity remembered from childhood and not regarded as strange, even in the most modern societies.
In the Qur'an (27: 24-25), God says that the people of Sheba (Saba') were idolaters, just like the people of Abraham:
I found both her [the Queen of Sheba] and her people prostrating to the sun instead of God. Satan has made their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided and do not prostrate to God, Who brings out what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, and knows what you conceal and what you divulge.
These verses draw our attention to another important point: that Satan has made idolatrous religions seem valid and meaningful to people, to bar them from God's Way. Satan knows, for example, that the sun is not a god to be worshipped; but a creation of God like all the rest of the universe. In other words, every idolatrous religion that opposes God's revelation is actually based on the revelations of Satan, who does this so that men and women will not prostrate themselves before God.
Another example of idolatry that God gives In the Qur'an concerns the Children of Israel. While they were escaping Pharaoh and his people with Moses (peace be upon him), they met a people that worshipped idols and they wanted Moses to make them a similar idol. In the Qur'an (7: 138-139), God tells about this:
We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea, and they came upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols that they had. They said, "Moses, give us a god just as these people have gods." He said, "You are indeed an ignorant people. What these people are doing is destined for destruction. What they are doing is purposeless."   
From this account, we see that the Children of Israel, acting in ignorance, wanted a god they could see with their eyes, before which they could bow down and perhaps perform elaborate ceremonies. This indicates they did not conceive of, much less appreciate, God's might. Although Moses explained the truth to them, as soon as he left them, they made themselves an idol—a great perversion. In the Qur'an (7: 148-149), God tells us that immediately after, regret overcame them:
After he left, Moses's people adopted a calf made from their ornaments, a form which made a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could not speak to them or guide them to any way? They adopted it, and so they were wrongdoers.
When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they had been misled, they said, "If our Lord does not have mercy on us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the lost."
But to those who had made the calf into a god, God gave this answer (Qur'an, 7: 152):
As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world. That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood.    The above verses show that if God wills, He can forgive or punish those who associate His creatures with Him. Those who do so are actually fabricating falsehood, since the evident truth is that there is only one God. To bow before these invented gods is a terrible crime against God. As stated in the Qur'an (4: 48), God may forgive those who commit every other sin and error, but never one who associates His creatures with Him:
God does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone who associates something with God has committed a terrible crime.

There is No Deity Except God  (:$ (:$ (:$

The basis of Islam is the knowledge that God exists, and the understanding that there is no god but Him. In the Qur'an, the divine source of Islam, God tells us (2: 163) that this is the greatest foundation of religion: "Your God is God Alone. There is no deity except Him, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful."
Indeed, there is only one Absolute Being, and everything else is His creation. God made the universe we live in and, before He created it, no material thing existed. Nothing, animate or inanimate, had been brought into existence; there was nothing but a complete void. The moment the universe was created, only then did time, space and matter come into being, created by the Eternal God Who is not subject to any of them. In one verse (2: 117) of the Qur'an, God speaks of Himself as the flawless Creator of the universe:
[He is] The Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is.
God creates everything that is happening at this moment, and every moment. God constantly creates every rain drop that falls, every child who is born, the photosynthesis occurring in leaves, the functions of living bodies, the courses of the stars in their galaxies, every seed that sprouts, all we know and everything we do not. Everything in the universe, great and small, functions according to His command (Qur'an, 27: 64):
He Who originates creation and then regenerates it and provides for you from out of heaven and earth. Is there another god besides God? Say: "Bring your proof if you are being truthful."
From the cells of living things to the stars in the universe, all systems exist in wonderful order and function perfectly. This amazing order, controlled at every moment, continues in perfect harmony because our Lord embraces all existing things with His eternal knowledge (Qur'an, 67: 3-4):
He created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again—do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted!
To reject God as Creator and to attribute consciousness to any of the objects He has created shows a great lack of intelligence. The wonderful order in the universe and the flawless design in all living things show us that one Creator created them all. In one verse (23: 91), God announced that there is no other god besides Him, and that no other existing thing in the universe possesses power, apart from Him:
God has no son, and there is no other god accompanying Him, for then each god would have gone off with what He created, and one of them would have been exalted above the other. Glory be to God above what they describe.
God is everywhere and encompasses all things. He is the one true, absolute Being, and all things obey His will. God is in every moment and in every place. There is no place where He is not; no living thing exists that is beyond His control. He is All-sufficient and free from all weakness (Qur'an, 2: 255):
God, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them but they cannot grasp any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the earth and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent.

:-w :-w :-SS

Melihat atau menganalisa Ajaran Buddha dari kaca mata Al-Quran ya tidak akan pernah bisa yambung.... :))

The religion with Goat is İslam... (Qur'an, 3:19)

Quote from: xenocross on 19 January 2009, 02:13:27 PM
ya didebat dibantah dibuktikan....ayo posting....

debatnya ngak kedengaran......tolong pakai TOA....
soalnya kuping gw ada masalah....

The erroneous beliefs of Buddhism vary greatly from country to country, because over the past 2500 years, this religion has mingled with the various local religions, customs, and established cultures of countries into which it has spread. Today, the varieties of Buddhism practiced in Japan, China, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and America are all quite different from one another.
As historical sources show, Buddha always chose to speak about his basic tenets and deliver his way of worship orally; centuries of research has determined that he left behind no written texts. Buddhists maintain that his sermons were passed down orally from generation to generation for 400 years, until they were finally compiled in the Pali canon. However, most scholars believe that the great majority of these words are not Buddha's at all, but were added to in the course of centuries until they attained their present form.  :no: :no:
Therefore Buddhism, not relying on any written texts, underwent many changes and distortions over the course of time, being considerably reshaped by additions and omissions.
Today, Buddhism's holy book, written in the Pali language, is called the Tipitaka, which means "triple basket." It is not known for sure when the Tipitaka was written down, but it is thought to have attained its present shape in Sri Lanka sometime in the first century B.C. Its texts are divided into the following chapters:
1. Vinaya Pitaka: This chapter, meaning "Basket of Discipline," contains rules relevant to priests and nuns and how they should be followed. There are also some matters of relevance to those lay readers who are not priests or nuns.
2. Sutta Pitaka: Most of this volume is composed of talks in which Buddha explained his ideas. For this reason, this chapter is called the "Basket of Discourse." These words of his were passed down through the centuries, becoming mixed with other legends and false beliefs.
3. Abhidhamma Pitaka: This volume contains Buddhist philosophy and interpretations of Buddha's sermons.
Today's Buddhist priests regard these texts as holy; they worship and organize their lives according to them. They portray Buddha as an actual god (God is surely beyond that!), and for this reason, modern Buddhists bow before his statues, place before them offerings of food and flowers, and expect help from them. This is a completely illogical practice, however, and anyone who believes that stone or bronze statues can hear or help is greatly deceived. Later in this book, we examine these basically pagan practices in more detail, and see how Buddhism has become a secret doctrine concentrating on human beings without accounting for questions of how this world's flawless systems function, much less how the entire universe came to be.


An Atheistic Religion

Buddhist philosophy denies the existence of God, but bases itself on a few aspects of human morality and on escaping from sufferings of this world. Without any intellectual or scientific support :ngomel: :ngomel:,
it rests upon the twin concepts of karma and reincarnation—the idea that human beings are continually reborn into this world, that their subsequent lives are shaped by their behavior in their previous ones. No Buddhist scripture considers the existence of a Creator, much less how the universe, the world and living things came to be. No Buddhist text describes how the universe was created from nothing; or how living things came into being; or how to explain the evidence, to be seen everywhere in this world, of an incomparable creation. According to the Buddhist deception, it is not even necessary to think about these things! The only important thing in life, Buddhist texts claim, is suppressing desires, revering Buddha, and escaping from suffering.
As a religion, therefore, Buddhism suffers from a very narrow vision that keeps its believers from considering such basic questions as where they came from, or how the universe and all living things came to be.  :)) :)) :))
Indeed, it deters them from even thinking about these things and presses them into the narrow mold of their present earthly life.


An Oppressive, Enslaving Religion :o :o :o

Buddhism's attempt to nullify all human desires is another aspect of its narrow philosophy. God created the blessings of this world for human beings' benefit and pleasure, and so that they would give Him thanks in return. For this reason, Islam does not command people to suppress their desires or to endure pain and suffering. On the contrary, it enjoins them to take advantage of the beautiful aspects in the world (apart from base and unlawful behavior), not to restrain themselves needlessly, nor to inflict pain upon themselves. For this reason, God revealed (Qur'an, 7: 157) that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) had "relieved his followers of their chains":
Those who follow the Messenger, the Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad things unlawful for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which were around them. Those who believe in him and honor him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are successful.
In short, Islam is a liberating religion that saves people from useless customs and prohibitions,  ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
social pressures and worries about what other people may think. It calls them to lead calm, peaceful lives with the purpose of gaining God's approval. So it is that our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), in many of his sayings, advises us to make religion simple and easy.
"Make things easy for the people, and do not make it difficult for them, and make them calm (with glad tidings) and do not repulse (them)."1
"You have been sent to make things easy (for the people) and you have not been sent to make things difficult for them."2
Buddhism enslaves its devotees in misty monasteries and forces them into a life of suffering and poverty. Strangely, it discourages good food, cleanliness, comfort :?? :??—the blessings that God has created for human beings—accepts suffering as a virtue and advises its devotees to lead a miserable life.
For Buddhist monks and nuns, life is full of all kinds of difficulties. They are forbidden to work or own property, obliged to feed themselves by going from door to door and begging among the people, with their bowls in their hands. For this reason, Buddhist priests are even called bhikkhus (beggars) by the people. Buddhist priests are forbidden to marry or have any kind of family life; they may own only one robe, which must be of poor quality yellow or red cloth.
Besides this robe, their only other possessions include a hard bed to sleep on, a razor to shave their heads with, a needle case for their own use, a water bottle and a bowl to beg with. They eat only one meal a day, generally consisting of bread and rice flavored with spices, and drink either water or rice milk. They must finish this food before noon and are not allowed to eat anything until the next day. Other foods, even medicines, are regarded as forbidden luxuries. A priest may eat meat, fish or vegetables only if he is sick and then, only with the permission of a higher-ranking priest.  ::) ::) In short, Buddhist strictures are a form of self-torture. >:( >:(
This situation is a manifestation of the truth of the verse in the Qur'an (10: 44) that reads, "God does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who wrong themselves." But to those who believe in Him and submit themselves to Him, God promises a very good life, both in this world and the world to come. To them belong both the blessings of this world and those of the afterlife. According to the Qur'an (7: 32):
Say: "Who has forbidden the fine clothing God has produced for His servants and the good kinds of provision?" Say: "On the Day of Rising, such things will be exclusively for those who believed during their life in this world." In this way, We make the Signs clear for people who know.
Another dark aspect of Buddhism is its pessimism. The "nirvana" it promises to its believers is nothing less than a schizophrenic breaking of all connections with life by a melancholic mind that takes a dim view of the world. The Catholic Encyclopedia =)) =)) =)) describes this aspect of Buddhism in these words:
Another fatal defect of Buddhism is its false pessimism. A strong and healthy mind revolts against the morbid view that life is not worth living, that every form of conscious existence is an evil. Buddhism stands condemned by the voice of nature the dominant tone of which is hope and joy. It is a protest against nature for possessing the perfection of rational life. The highest ambition of Buddhism is to destroy that perfection by bringing all living beings to the unconscious repose of Nirvana. Buddhism is thus guilty of a capital crime against nature, and in consequence does injustice to the individual. All legitimate desires must be repressed. Innocent recreations are condemned. The cultivation of music is forbidden. Researches in natural science are discountenanced.  :o :o
The development of the mind is limited to the memorizing of Buddhist texts and the study of Buddhist metaphysics, only a minimum of which is of any value. The Buddhist ideal on earth is a state of passive indifference to everything.3
Islam does not make its adherents indifferent; on the contrary, it calls them to liveliness, activity, and joy.  ::) ::)All those who adopt the teachings of Islam are very sensitive to what goes on around them. They do not regard the world as Buddhism does, as chaos to avert the eyes from, but as a testing place—an arena in which they can put the high moral teachings of the Qur'an into practice. For this reason, Islamic history is full of just and successful leaders who ensured comfortable and happy lives for their people. :-& :-& In sharp contrast, Buddhism produces only wretched adherents who cause themselves suffering, drag themselves and others into passivity and poverty, and whose only solution to the problems they encounter is to immolate themselves. This is one of the biggest games that Satan plays with people.
~X( ~X( ~X( ~X( :ngomel: :ngomel: >:( >:(

A Pagan Religion

Buddhism is a pagan religion, inasmuch as it worships idols. It is said that today's Buddhism has been divided into different schools, and that worship of Buddha characterizes only some of them. But even to accept Buddhism as an infallible guide—an error that all schools of Buddhism fall into—is an indication that this religion views Buddha as a god.
According to historical sources, Buddhist priests began to deify Buddha shortly after his death. Statues of him were erected everywhere, and the perverse belief gained strength that Nirvana had actually taken shape in his body and was embodied in these statues. The excessive respect that Buddhist priests paid to Buddha later turned into outright worship. Today, giant statues of him adorn every country where Buddhism is the dominant religion. In many countries from Asia to America, you can see statues and temples with Buddha's eyes painted on them—again, suggesting the message that Buddha sees everything and watches people constantly, and that they should be thinking of him every minute of their lives. Clearly, it's a completely untenable belief that someone who died thousands of years ago can still see those who believe in him, protect them, and listen to their prayers. The basic truth that Buddhists are unable to grasp is that God, Lord of all the Worlds, Who encompasses everything and knows the deepest hidden secrets of all things, created Buddha, like all human beings.


Belief in Karma

The doctrine of karma supposes that everything a person does will have its effect on him sooner or later, and will have a bearing on his so-called next incarnation. According to this belief, people are continually reborn into this world, where they must bear the consequences in that later life of what they did in a former one. Buddhism denies the existence of God =D> =D> and believes that karma is the unique power that governs everything.
Karma is a Sanskrit word that means "act," and refers to the law of cause and effect. According to those who believe in it, a person will experience in the future what he has done in the past, for good or ill. The past is one's former life; the future is supposed to be a new life they will begin after death. According to this belief, anyone who is poor in this life is paying with his poverty the price for evil that he committed in some former life. This superstitious belief also claims that in a later life, an evil person may be "demoted" to rebirth as an animal or even a plant.  =)) =))

One harmful result of believing in karma is that it teaches that present helplessness, poverty and weakness are punishments for a person's moral evils. According to this belief system, if a person is disabled, it's because he has inflicted a similar injury on someone else in a former life and therefore deserves it. This superstitious belief is the main reason why the unjust social structure of the caste system dominated India for so many centuries. (It must be remembered that karma is a Hindu idea, and Buddhism actually arose from Hinduism.) Because the caste system was based on karma, the poor, sick and disabled within India were despised and oppressed. The wealthy high-caste ruling class regarded their own privileges as natural and just.
In Islam, however, being weak is not a retribution; it is accepted as a test from God.  ::) ::)Furthermore, other people have the very important duty of helping those who are in need. For this reason, Islam—like Judaism and Christianity, other religions based on divine revelation but that were later altered—has a very strong sense of social justice. But karma-based religions like Buddhism and Hinduism tolerate inequality and pose a great obstacle to social progress. :no: :no:
Karma is based on the belief in reincarnation: the idea that people come back into the world with the same spirit but in a different body. This idea of a "wheel of rebirth" supposes that every life influences a subsequent one. But this belief fails with one single question: how does this karma operate? If Buddhism doesn't accept the existence of God, then who judges a person's former life and sends him back into the world in a new body? This question has no answer! Buddhists believe that karma is a "natural law" that functions by itself, spontaneously, like gravity or thermodynamics. However, it is God Who created all natural laws. No natural law observes what people do throughout their lives, keeps an account, and judges them after death on that basis. No natural law determines, as a result of this judgment, what kind of new life a person will have and re-creates him accordingly; and no natural law imposes this process flawlessly on billions of people, much less animals. Clearly no such natural law exists, and so, neither can such a process exist. ::) ::) ::)
So many people throughout the world believe in reincarnation, even though it has no logical basis, because they have no religious faith. Denying the existence of an infinite afterlife, they fear death and cling to the idea of reincarnation as a way to escape their fear. Belief in reincarnation—like belief in karma—is based in the false consolation that death is nothing to be feared, and that anyone will be able to attain his goals in a new birth.
If reincarnation can't occur on its own, as a natural law, then clearly it could exist only through a supernatural act of creation. But a look at the Qur'an tells us that reincarnation is a myth. The Book that God sent down as a guide to humanity openly declares that reincarnation is false. ::) ::)


Reincarnation According to Islam

As in every other matter, the Muslim point of view regarding to the philosophy of karma must be based on what God says in the Qur'an, which states there is only one birth and resurrection. Everyone lives only once on this earth, and then he dies. In verse 62: 8, our Lord gives the following command:
Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible and He will inform you about what you did.
A person is resurrected after death and, according to all the things he has done and the works he has performed, is rewarded with either eternal Paradise or endless Hell. That is to say, that a human being has one life in this world, and then an everlasting afterlife. God says very clearly in the Qur'an (21: 95) that after he has died, no one will return to this life: "It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again." And similarly:

When death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back again so that perhaps I may act rightly regarding the things I failed to do!" No indeed! It is just words he utters. Behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected. (Qur'an, 23: 99-100)   

As these verses show, one part of humanity will die in the hopes of being reborn, but at the moment of their death, it will be revealed to them that this is absolutely impossible. In another verse in the Qur'an (2: 28), God says this about the death and resurrection of human beings:
How can you reject God, when you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him?   
God says that every human being is dead to begin with; that is, he is created out of the basic inanimate elements of soil, water and mud. Then, God "formed and proportioned" this lifeless mass (Qur'an, 82: 7) and brought him to life. At a specific time after the individual has been brought to life, life comes to an end, and he dies. He returns to the earth and decays back into the soil, where he awaits the final resurrection. Everyone will be resurrected on the Last Day when, learning that another return to earth is not possible, he will give an account of all the actions he did in his life. In the Qur'an (44: 56-57), God says that after a human being has come into this world, he will experience only one death: "They will not taste any death there—except for the first one. He will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire. A favor from your Lord. That is the Great Victory."
These verses make it clear that death occurs only once. No matter how much people want to overcome their fears of death and an everlasting afterlife and console themselves with false beliefs in karma and reincarnation, the reality is that they won't return to this world after they die. Everyone will die only once and, as God has willed, will have an endless life in the world to come. According to the good or the evil that individuals have done, they will either be rewarded with Paradise, or punished with Hell.
Eternally just, merciful and compassionate, God gives the perfect reward for what everyone has done. If a person seeks comfort in false beliefs because he fears death or the possibility of going to Hell, he will experience certain ruin. Anyone who has intelligent awareness, conscience, and fears in this regard must turn to God with a sincere heart if he hopes to escape the pains of Hell and attain Paradise. He must conform his life to the Qur'an, the true guide for humanity.
Never yet has being old or young, beautiful or rich been able to prevent anyone from dying; and so, no one can disregard death's reality. Whether people disregard that reality or not, it is something they can never avoid.

The throes of death come revealing the truth. That is what you were trying to evade! (Qur'an, 50: 19)

Reading these lines, you may be led to consider the closeness of death. Perhaps death is closer to you than to others; and you may die before you finish reading this book. It may come for no apparent reason, with no illness, accident or age-related cause. God will send the Angel of Death to come at the hour of your departure and take
your soul.
We must always keep this important fact in mind and never postpone making preparations for death. The Qur'an (63: 11) reminds us that "God will not give anyone more time, once their time has come." Here, God tells us that death cannot be postponed, and He speaks of the sorrow of an individual who meets it:
Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to one of you and he says, "My Lord, if only you would give me a little more time so that I would give charity and be among the righteous!" God will not give anyone more time, once their time has come. God is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 63:10-11)

:))

Good articles...

http://theravadin.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/craving-for-nibbana/

One day a brahmin came to visit the venerable Ananda. He asked the venerable Ananda: "How can you ever overcome desire if you desire for Nibbana?". Then the venerable Ananda gave a simile: When you, dear brahmin, were at home, did you not think: "I wish to go to the monastery to see the venerable Ananda". Tell me, what happened to that desire of yours?" - Then the brahmin answered: "Well, that wish of mine was fulfilled once i came to the monastery." - Then venerable Ananda said: "In the same way someone would desire to achieve Nibbana, but on reaching Nibbana that desire would be fulfilled."

"'This body comes into being through craving. And yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said. And in reference to what was it said? There is the case, sister, where a monk hears, 'The monk named such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the preparations, has entered & remains in the preparations-free deliverance of the mind & deliverance through wisdom, having known & realized them for himself in this very life.' The thought occurs to him, 'I hope that I, too, will — through the ending of all preparations will enter and remain in the preparations-free deliverance of the mind & deliverance through wisdom, having known & realized them for myself in this very life..' Then, at a later time, he abandons craving, having relied on craving. (So aparena samayena taṇhaṃ nissāya taṇhaṃ pajahati) 'This body comes into being through craving. And yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said. And in reference to this was it said. {AN 4. 159}

kalo diladenin nanti jihad lagi ^-^

Quote from: nyanadhana on 20 January 2009, 05:00:32 PM
The religion with Goat is İslam... (Qur'an, 3:19)

wakwakkaka.. pinteran melesetinnya =))

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Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. In short desire can only be removed by having a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. If you do not follow the Eight Fold Path, desire cannot be removed. It is self contradicting as well as self-defeating to say that desire will only be removed by continuously having a desire.

Ini nih ciri2 orang yg cuma dari baca buku Buddhism stengah2...


Utk 2 postingan di bawah ini, ada pertanyaan :)

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Melihat atau menganalisa Ajaran Buddha dari kaca mata Al-Quran ya tidak akan pernah bisa yambung.... :))

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hihihi,kalo Buddhist dipake buat debat dari kacamata mereka yang selam,yah ga bakalan ketemu pointnya...

Tanya: Bagaimana jika dibalik? Menganalisa Agama Iselam dari kacamata Buddhism? bisa nyambung gak yah? :-?


_/\_

ini propagandanya, entah taqiya (bohong) atau bukan

http://www.kebunhikmah.com/article-detail.php?artid=195

Gadis Dari China Town
   

Pertama kali wanita ini datang ke kelas Islamic Forum for non Muslims (Forum Islam untuk non-Muslim) saya sangka sekadar iseng. Dia datang tapi hanya duduk sebentar, lalu meninggalkan ruangan. Minggu selanjutnya datang lagi.

Akhirnya saya bertanya padanya dalam bahasa Inggris, "Siapa Anda dan apakah tertarik belajar Islam?"

Dia menjawab, "Ya, saya merasa disconnection."

Ia mengaku disconnected (tidak nyambung) karena menganggap saya selalu berbicara tentang Islam dan agama lain, tapi agamanya tidak pernah disebutkan. Saya baru paham bahwa ia adalah seorang penganut Budha. Sementara dalam kelas, biasanya saya lebih berkonsentrasi pada agama kr****n, ka****k, dan Yahudi.

Sejak itu, setiap kali dia hadir di kelas, saya selalu menyebutkan beberapa kaitan diskusi dengan agama-agama lain, termasuk Budha. Misalnya bagaimana agama Budha menitikberatkan ajarannya pada "alam" dan "spiritual", yang sesungguhnya Islam lebih jauh memperhatikan hal-hal tersebut tapi dengan pendekatan yang balanced (imbang). Secara khusus, saya sempat memberikan hadiah sebuah buku milik Harun Yahya berjudul Islam and Budhism.

Sejak itu perhatiannya ke kelas semakin konsentrasi. Bahkan setiap kali selesai belajar, dengan sopan (adat China ) meminta agar saya bisa berbicara khusus dengannya. Anehnya, sebelum memulai pembicaraan, biasanya dia sudah meneteskan airmata.

"Apa yang sesungguhnya membuat Anda menangis?" tanya saya.

Katanya, hatinya cenderung ke agama Islam, tapi ia mengaku terlalu banyak dosa yang telah diperbuatnya. Ia mengaku selama ini merasa menyembah berhala (patung-patung)--yang menurutnya-- unforgivable (tak termaafkan) dalam Islam.

Rupanya ia masih terkenang dengan penjelasan saya bahwa semua dosa diampuni kecuali dosa "syirik". Kepadanya saya jelaskan bahwa dosa syirik yang dimaksud adalah ketika sudah menjadi Muslim/Muslimah lalu tetap melakukan berbagai kesyirikan. Barulah ia merasa senang. Bahkan sejak itu, setiap kali ke kelas--dengan bahasa Inggris logat kental China —ia sangat bersemangat untuk mengajukan berbagai pertanyaan tentang masalah-masalah praktis dalam Islam, seperti shalat.

***

Perempuan enerjik itu bernama Eirine. Itulah nama yang selama ini saya kenal. Perempuan berpenampilan sederhana, seorang profesor Antropologi di City College , sebuah universitas negeri di up town (bagian atas) kota New York .

Ia mengenal Islam dari murid-muridnya yang Muslim di kolese tersebut. Bertepatan dengan malam Nuzul Al-Qur`an, di Masjid Al-Hikmah, New York --masjid yang dimiliki masyarakat Muslim asal Indonesia —tatkala itu mengadakan open house ifthar (acara buka puasa bersama) dengan tetangga-tetangga non-Muslim. Itulah yang membawa Eirine hadir dalam acara tersebut. Secara kebetulan, saat itu, saya menjelaskan kepada non-Muslim mengenai Islam. Eirine nampak serius mendengarkan.

Setelah berbuka puasa, saya terkejut. Tidak seperti biasa, Eirine langsung mendekati saya sebelum memberikan isyarat. Biasanya dengan mengangkat tangan atau isyarat yang lain. Setelah selesai makan kue, persis di saat akan dilaksanakan shalat Maghrib, dia mendekat dan mengatakan, "Saya piker, saya tidak lagi punya alas an untuk menundanya lebih lama."

Saya tanya, "Menunda apa?"

Dia bilang, "Saya ingin menjadi seorang Muslimah malam ini."

Dengan bersyukur kepada Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, segera saya umumkan kepada jamaah yang memang membludak malam itu bahwa seorang sister akan mengucapkan dua kalimah syahadat.

Sebelum Maghrib, saya memintanya mengucapkan syahadat. Namun karena mengaku masih merasa gugup, saya memutuskan memberikannya waktu hingga Isya'.

Alhamdulillah, di hadapan jamaah shalat Isya' Masjid Al-Hikmah, wanita China Town ini mengucapkan dua kalimah syahadat diiringi linangan airmata dan pekik takbir seluruh jamaah. Allahu akbar!

Senin akhir bulan Oktober 2006 lalu, Eirine menyempatkan diri mengikuti ceramah saya tentang "Why Al-Qur'an?" di Pace University. Di universitas ini beberapa waktu lalu ditemukan Al-Qur`an di WC dua kali, dan sempat menjadi berita besar. Oleh karena itu, Muslim Students Association menggelar forum publik untuk menjelaskan kepada komunitas Pace University tentang Al-Qur`an dan kenapa Al-Qur`an itu begitu disucikan.

Saat itu Eirine hadir sudah lengkap dengan menggunakan penutup kepalanya.


New York , 5 November 2006
Syamsyi Ali

http://www.kebunhikmah.com/article-detail.php?artid=188

Imani, Gadis Srilanka

Dua minggu menjelang Ramadhan, the Islamic Forum seperti biasanya, padat dengan peserta dialog. Sebagian besar memang adalah para muallaf dan non Muslim yang sudah beberapa bulan belajar Islam. Salah satu dari non Muslim itu adalah seorang gadis, hampir saja kusangka gadis Aceh atau Bangladesh. Wajah dan postur tubuhnya nampak jauh lebih muda dari umurnya yang ke 23. Sangat pendiam dan sopan, tapi sangat kritis dalam mempertanyakan banyak hal.

Hari itu saya memang menjelaskan makna-makna spiritual dari ibadah puasa. Penjelasan saya terkonsentrasi pada kata "taqwa" yang didetailkan kemudian oleh S. Ali Imran: "Dan bersegeralah ke magfirah Tuhanmu dan syurga yang luasnya seluas langit dan bumi, disediakan bagi orang-orang yang bertakwa. Yaitu yang senantiasa memberi, baik dalam keadaan senang maupun susah, menahan marah dan memaafkan manusia. Sungguh Allah mencintai orang-orang yang berbuat kebajikan. Dan orang-orang yang jika melakukan kekejian atau menzalimi diri mereka sendiri, mereka ingat kepada Allah dan mereka memohon ampunan dariNya atas dosa-dosa mereka...dst".

Siang itu penjelasan saya memang banyak berkisar pada makna "takwa" dalam konteks "ihsan". Bahwa membangun ketakwaan tidak sekedar dilakukan lewat pendekatan formal hukum tapi yang menjadi inti sesungguhnya adalah kemampuan membangun "relasi spiritual" dengan Ilahi. Simbol keberagamaan (aspek-aspek formal agama) tidak menjamin ketinggian keberagamaan (religiusitas) seseorang. Tapi banyak ditentukan oleh, selain benar secara hukum formal, juga benar secara batin. Biasanya hukum formal ini terkait erat dengan masalah-masalah fiqhiyah, dan hukum batin ini terkait dengan kesadaran jiwa di saat melakukan penghambaan (ibadah).

Tanpa terasa penjelasan itu memakan waktu lebih 1 ½ jam. Sebagaimana biasa, saya kemudian memberikan kesempatan kepada semua peserta untuk mengajukan pertanyaan atau memberikan komentar.

Beragam pertanyaan yang diajukan oleh para peserta. "Nampaknya, Islam dan agama-agama lainnya tidak jauh berbeda", komentar salah seorang peserta non Muslim. "I used to think that Islam is all about laws, do this, don't do that...etc." komentar yang lain.

Seorang gadis yang ada di ruangan itu, yang sejak awal diam dan juga jarang memperlihatkan senyum, tiba-tiba angkat suara. Suaranya pelan dan hampir tidak kedengaran. "Do you believe in the incarnation?", tanyanya lembut. "Before I respond to your question, can you explain to me, what do you know about the incarnation?" kata saya.

Dia kemudian berbicara cukup panjang mengenai konsep inkarnasi dalam pandangan agama Budha. Penjelasannya cukup menarik, dan terkadang dibumbui pula dengan argumentasi rasional. Oleh karena tidak ada yang menyangka kalau gadis itu beragama Budha, hampir semua terheran-heran di saat dia mengatakan "in my belief...Buddhism". Saya pun memotong langsung dan bertanya: "Sister, may I ask you a personal question?". "Yes sir!" jawabnya. "Are you a Buddhist?", tanya saya. "Yes sir. My mom is a strong follower of Buddhism, but my dad doesn't really care about religion", jawabnya.

Dia memang nampak canggung menjawab pertanyaan itu. Tapi nampaknya pula bahwa dia adalah seseorang yang berani. "So, when we talk about religion, what do you mean by that word (religion)?", pancingku. "I really don't know. But as far as I know, we Buddhists neither we believe in religion nor in god", jelasnya. "So in what do you have faith?", tanyaku lagi. "Basically the center of our faith is in the nature itself. And we the people are the center of the nature", katanya lagi.

Saya tiba-tiba teringat dengan Kumar, seorang pemuda Bangladesh beragama Budha yang masuk Islam beberapa waktu lalu. Saya juga tiba-tiba teringat dengan Nagakawa, seorang pendeta Budha yang seringkali saya temui dalam beberapa pertemuan antar-agama (interfaith) . Terbayang kegalauan mereka dalam melihat makna kehidupan ini. Mereka tidak tahu asal, dan juga tidak sadar ke mana mereka berjalan. Pencarian spiritualitas mereka hanya sebatas "pemenuhan kebutuhan spiritualitas sesaat". Inilah yang menjadikan Dalai Lama menjadi sangat populer di AS, tentu juga karena ada kepentingan politik Amerika terhadap China.

"Let me ask you a question", saya memulai diskuis itu lagi. Dia mengangguk. "Do you pray or supplicate?", tanya saya. "Yes, in fact my mother pray every day at home", jelasnya. "Now, here is the point", kata saya. "If you believe in the nature, worship the nature, and you are the most important part that nature, to whom do you address your prayers or supplications?"

Dia mulai tersenyum sambil menengok ke teman-teman lain yang ikut tersenyum ketika itu. "I don't know. But as I heard, we pray towards the nature itself. According to Buddhism, this nature has power", jelasnya. "But if you are an important part of this nature, and in fact you yourself the center of that nature, then basically you pray to your own self!", jelas saya. "And if so, what is the point of asking to your own self? Iif you have that power, then what is the need to ask?", tanya saya.

Para peserta nampak tertawa mendengarkan pertanyaan-pertanya an saya tersebut. Sementara sang gadis itu nampak bingung dan hanya tersenyum mendengarkan semua itu. "Sister, in our religion God is the center of all issues", lanjutku. Saya kemudian berusaha menjelaskan bahwa agama itu bukan sekedar pemenuhan kebutuhan spiritualitas sesaat, melainkan konsep kehidupan. Bahwa spiritualitas memiliki tempat penting dalam agama, namun tanpa Tuhan, konsep spiritualitas seperti itu bersifat semu.

Saya kemudian menjelaskan panjang lebar kehidupan Hollywood yang penuh dengan kegemerlapan duniawi. Ada dua kemungkinan yang terjadi pada akhir kehidupan para artis itu. Kalau tidak terjebak pada kehidupan "hedonistis" tanpa ujung, atau mereka akan terjebak kepada pencarian spiritualitas yang illutif.

Pada akhir penjelasan itu, tiba-tiba gadis itu berkata: "It does make sense!". Saya menimpali: "True religion does make sense. And Islam does make sense!", jelasku.

Kelas hari itupun bubar. Tapi tanpa terlupakan saya pinjamkan gadis itu sebuah buku perbandingan Islam dan Buddha tulisan Harun Yahya dan sebuah Al-Quran terjemahan.

Dua hari kemudian, hari Senin, ketika saya tiba di kantor di pagi hari, tiba-tiba gadis itu sudah berada di ruangan resepsionis.. "Hi, how are you?", sapa saya. Tanpa memperlihatkan senyum sedikitpun, gadis tersebut menjawab: "Hi, I am fine!". Rupanya resepsionis menimpali bahwa dia sudah menunggu dari pagi. Maka segera saya ajak dia masuk ke ruang pertemuan.

"What I can do for you this morning?", tanyaku. "My mom took all my books", katanya. "Why?" tanya saya. "She doesn't want me to read those books, but I am really interested to know", jawabnya. "It's fine, that may cause you mom to study and know this religion too. I will give you some other books", kata saya.

Tanpa panjang lebar, saya kemudian menjelaskan Islam kepadanya. Saya memulai dari hakikat kehidupan, kedudukan manusia, dan bagaimana kebutuhan manusia kepada Yang Maha Dzat, Allah SWT. Selama saya menjelaskan itu, beberapa kali saya harus mengulangi karena beberapa terminology yang sama sekali asing baginya. Tapi akhirnya, nampak wajahnya puas.

"Any thing else in your mind that you want to clarify or further to ask?", tanyaku. Dia hanya menggelengkan kepala. "So, what do you think about the religion?", tanyaku lagi. Dengan sangat pelan, dia menjawab: "I feel that Islam is quite rational and it does make sense to me", katanya. "I like it!", lanjutnya.

Mendengar itu, saya segera memancing. "So, you are certain that the religion is the true one". "I think so!", jawabnya. "If you are still thinking that it's true, it means you are not certain yet!", kataku. Seraya tersenyum dia menjawab: "No, I am sure about it!", tegasnya.

"Does it mean that you believe in Islam? Do you believe in God?", tanya saya. "Yes, I am sure God does exist, and sure that we need Him in our life", katanya. "Ok, if I say to you, are you willing to embrace Islam, are you ready?", tanyaku. Dengan sedikit menunduk, nampak seperti ragu, namun dengan mantap dia mengatakan: "Yes!".

Saya kemudian menjelaskan enam rukun Iman dan lima rukun Islam. Juga sedikit saya jelaskan kaitan Islam dengan kehidupan nyata manusia. "Any question before taking your shahadah?", tanyaku. Dia hanya menganggukkan kepala.

Saya kemudian menelpon resepsionis untuk memanggil dua saksi. Maka disaksikan oleh dua saksi di pagi hari itu, gadis belia ini mengucapkan: "Asy-hadu an laa ilaaha illa Allah- wa asy-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasul Allah", diikti pekikan takbir kedua saksi itu.

Alhamdulillah, gadis yang kemudian memilih nama barunya "Imani" ini sudah mulai berpuasa Ramadhan lalu. Sayang, dia baru tahu kalau Ramadhan sudah masuk setelah 10 hari Ramadhan berlalu. Maka di bulan Syawal lalu, dia berusaha mengganti puasanya yang tertinggal ditambah puasa 6 hari Syawal.

Sekitar 2 minggu lalu, Imani silaturrahmi ke rumah kami pada acara "open house" kami. Tapi setibanya siang itu di rumah kami, dia tidak makan. Rupanya dia sedang berpuasa sunnah Syawal. Maka kami ajak dia untuk tinggal sampai berbuka puasa. Setelah berbuka puasa, Imani pamitan pulang. Tapi karena sudah gelap dan akhir pekan yang biasanya subway tidak terlalu lancar, kami ajak Imani menginap di rumah kami.

Di saat silaturrahim itu, betapa gembira Imani ketika bertemu dengan keluarga Srilanka yang putranya menikah dengan wanita Indonesia. Imani merasa mendapatkan keluarga barunya. Dan pagi hari, selepas shalat subuh Imani meninggalkan rumah sambil berpesan kepada anak kami: "Tell your mom, dad, thank you so much for your hospitality and the delicious dinner!".

Hari Sabtu lalu, dengan suara pelan Imani berbisik: "I hope I can find a husband who can teach me reading Arabic (Qur'an)". "Insha Allah Sister! May Allah make it easy for you and we will do help you in any way possible!", kataku. Baru ketika itu juga saya tahu kalau Imani sudah berumur 23 tahun dan sudah tahun ketiga di salah satu college yang berafiliasi dengan Columbia University di New York.

Semoga Imani akan selalu dilindungi dalam naungan iman hingga akhir perjalanan hidupnya menuju Rabbnya!

New York , 29 Oktober 2007

* Penulis adalah imam Masjid Islamic Cultural Center of New York. Syamsi adalah penulis rubrik "Kabar Dari New York" di www.hidayatullah.com

ada orang bodoh selalu menangkap sebuah negara yang majoritas memeluk agama A lalu ketika penduduk disitu memeluk agama B ,maka ia dengan bangga mengatakan bahwa semua orang mengakui agama B sebagai terhebat. orang seperti itu tidak pernah bisa melihat esensi dari ber"agama".ia selamanya terselimut dalam ketidaktahuan yang membuat dia berputar2 dalam kehidupan.
kalo semua orang tahu gimana agama I membuat negara itu memeluk ya pake cara kekerasan,penaklukan,senjata,perang,dan semua taktik yang membuat rakyat sengsara dan mau tak mau menerima agama I kalo tidak ya dibunuh.

At Nyana

Saya setuju dengan pendapat anda
Sebab yang selama ini terjadi dari abad pertengahan hingga masa kini yah tetap begitu
Antara dua pilihan, menarik2 orang masuk agamanya dengan cara menjelek2an agama lain, atau dengan cara memaksa
Yeahh.. that's a fact

Quote from: xuvie on 21 January 2009, 12:37:00 AM

Quote from: nyanadhana on 20 January 2009, 05:00:32 PM
The religion with Goat is İslam... (Qur'an, 3:19)

wakwakkaka.. pinteran melesetinnya =))

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Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. In short desire can only be removed by having a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. If you do not follow the Eight Fold Path, desire cannot be removed. It is self contradicting as well as self-defeating to say that desire will only be removed by continuously having a desire.

Ini nih ciri2 orang yg cuma dari baca buku Buddhism stengah2...


Utk 2 postingan di bawah ini, ada pertanyaan :)

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Melihat atau menganalisa Ajaran Buddha dari kaca mata Al-Quran ya tidak akan pernah bisa yambung.... :))

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hihihi,kalo Buddhist dipake buat debat dari kacamata mereka yang selam,yah ga bakalan ketemu pointnya...

Tanya: Bagaimana jika dibalik? Menganalisa Agama Iselam dari kacamata Buddhism? bisa nyambung gak yah? :-?


_/\_

sama saja tidak akan nyambung kl pake kaca mata yang berbeda....hehehhe...

Quote from: nyanadhana on 21 January 2009, 08:07:33 AM
ada orang bodoh selalu menangkap sebuah negara yang majoritas memeluk agama A lalu ketika penduduk disitu memeluk agama B ,maka ia dengan bangga mengatakan bahwa semua orang mengakui agama B sebagai terhebat. orang seperti itu tidak pernah bisa melihat esensi dari ber"agama".ia selamanya terselimut dalam ketidaktahuan yang membuat dia berputar2 dalam kehidupan.
kalo semua orang tahu gimana agama I membuat negara itu memeluk ya pake cara kekerasan,penaklukan,senjata,perang,dan semua taktik yang membuat rakyat sengsara dan mau tak mau menerima agama I kalo tidak ya dibunuh.

harus baca sejarah bagaimana selam disebarkan...dan nanti juga akan tahu sendiri....

shortcut gitu loh

taqiya = konsep dalam Isl** yang mengatakan bohong itu HALAL asalkan demi menarik umat ke agama dia.
Makanya kalau ada orang dari I yg bilang ini itu harus diselidiki dulu.

Terlepas dari hal itu, 2 "mualaf" dari buddhis itu digambarkan sebagai "buddhis ktp" atau "buddhis tradisi" yah jelas aja gampang dikibulin

maksudnya Dee dan Marcell?

??? Dee??? maksudnya cerita Imani gadis Srilanka dan cewe chinatown itu lho.
Memang ada apa dengan dee? Bukannya dia masih baik2 saja ya?

memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

Quote from: marcedes on 22 January 2009, 01:22:13 AM
memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

dijamin yang goyah itu bukan belajar ajaran buddha... tetapi ajaran yang "katanya" buddha... lha... tuh dalam cerita-nya kan katanya si ce-chinese yang beragama "buddha" merasa "berdosa" karena menyembah patung/berhala... yang seperti ini kan tidak ada di dalam ajaran buddha...

Quote from: marcedes on 22 January 2009, 01:22:13 AM
memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

Begitu pula alasan dr mereka yg memiliki sudut pandang Selam, terutama yg radikal. "Kepercayaan mereka berdasar pada Kebenaran dan kita tidak." Gak kan ada titik temunya kalo gini terus..

Buddhism's Misguided Belief About the Afterlife

Buddhism's belief in karma leaves no room for belief in the eternal afterlife, Paradise or Hell. This false and perverse position —the idea that an individual returns into the world after each death, continually—conflicts with what God has revealed in the Qur'an. In The Religions of India, Edward Washburn Hopkins, a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, explains that Buddhism does not believe in an afterlife:
. . . The logic of his own system led Buddha into a formal and complete pessimism, which denies an after-life to the man that finds no happiness in this . . . In his talks with his questioners and disciples, he uses all means to evade direct inquiry in regard to the fate of man after death. He believed that Nirvana (extinction of lust) led to cessation of being; he did not believe in an immortal soul... What he urged repeatedly was that every one accepting the undisputed doctrine of karma or re-birth in its full extent (i.e., that for every sin here, punishment followed in the next existence), should endeavor to escape, if possible, from such an endless course of painful re-births. . .4
From some Buddhist writings, one can glean the following information on the afterlife:
Whether one is reborn in Heaven or in one of the various levels of Hell, the forms of existence in these places are transitory, as they are on earth, and are not eternal. As in Hinduism, the period of time during which . . . individuals remain in these places depends on the amount of good and evil they have done while on earth. When the prescribed time has been completed, they will return to earth again. Heaven and Hell are no more than temporary states of existence in which the individuals receive their reward for the acts they have committed while on earth.5
Buddhism teaches that there is a kind of Paradise and Hell, as a reward and punishment for what a person has done. But because this belief does not stem from a revealed religion, it contains many contradictions and illogicalities. Above all, and contrary to what God has revealed in the Qur'an, Buddhism believes that Paradise and Hell are only transitory.
Again, one of this belief's most illogical aspects is the idea that all systems in the world operate, in effect, by themselves. :)) :)) According to Buddhism, just as the existence of the universe and human beings is uncontrolled, so is the cycle of death and re-birth. There is no room in this belief for a Creator Who has brought into existence the world and the life upon it, together with Paradise and Hell, and rewards human beings for what they have done. However, accepting the existence of Paradise and Hell as places where reward and punishment are given, but not explaining how these realms were created, is an extremely illogical, unacceptable claim.
But who deals out the rewards and punishments? Moreover, how were these realms created? The philosophy of karma claims no account of how Paradise and Hell could have come into being without a Creator. This superstitious belief has been passed down from generation to generation, without ever being questioned or logically explained. Buddhism has no logical explanation for the existence of the universe or how it functions, nor of the origin of the flawless creative art evident in all living things. For this reason, Buddhism can never presume to be more than a mystical movement with no basis in logic, supported only by myths.


The Reality Awaiting Us in the Hereafter

The only source where we can learn the facts about life in this world and belief in the afterlife is the Qur'an, sent down as a guide for human beings and the teachings (Sunnah) of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace).
God says in the Qur'an that life in this world is a temporary testing period for everyone, and that the afterlife is our eternal homeland. Everyone will have a reward in Paradise or Hell for all the deeds he has done over the lifetime he has spent in this world. God reveals this truth in these words (Qur'an, 6: 32):
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The hereafter is better for those who do their duty. So will you not use your intellect?
Someone who submits to God, conforming his life to the true guide He has sent down and to the teachings of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), believes with all his heart that on the Last Day, he will account for all for his deeds—and will receive the reward in eternal Paradise or endless Hell. God has revealed this to humanity in the books He has sent down and the prophets He has chosen. But Buddhism is a man-made doctrine, built through hearsay on the foundation of a philosophy propounded by one single man.
Using human reasoning to change what has come from God is a serious error. Those who get their heads full of half-baked ideas about the Buddhist way and, in their desire to imitate their favorite pop musicians or film stars, start to follow Buddhism as a fad, should consider this and free themselves from their mistake.
In the Qur'an, God reveals the state of those who say there in no afterlife:

As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid except for what they did? (Qur'an, 7: 147)

But as for those who did not believe and denied Our Signs and meeting in the hereafter, they will be summoned to the punishment (Qur'an, 30: 16).

The "repayment" and "punishment" mentioned in these verses will begin at the moment of death. Those who realize what an error they had been living during their earthly lives will feel unrepentable sorrow:

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and saying, "Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the believers." (Qur'an, 6: 27)

If only you could see the evildoers hanging their heads in shame before their Lord: "Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard, so send us back again and we will act rightly. Truly we now have certainty." (Qur'an, 32: 12)

However much they may beg and ask for forgiveness, they will begin an afterlife full of agony from which there is no escape, much less a return. Their repentance will not be accepted, and never will their desire to return to the world be fulfilled. Though warned many times, the godless who did not believe—and bowed themselves before statues of stone and wood that they associated with God; who espoused vain philosophies only as a show to attract the interest of others; who did not fear God as they should have—will enter unending humiliation from the moment they meet the Angel of Death. Their souls will be taken with blows to their back and sides, they will be grabbed by the forelock and be thrown into Hell; this will be the beginning of their afterlife.
God will not allow them to speak, and their voices will be no louder than a whisper. (Qur'an, 20: 108) Hell will be the final place for all those godless people who exalted themselves before God, did not believe in the resurrection or the afterlife, were rebellious despite the warnings and did not lead a moral life. The people of Hell, "shackled together in chains" (Qur'an, 25: 13), will be jammed into "a sealed vault of Fire" (Qur'an, 90: 20) and live in the murk of thick black smoke. They will hear the fire gasping harshly as it seethes and find people moaning in it. Their endless pain will never be relieved, despite their entreaties, causing them indescribable anxiety.
Physically, the denizens of Hell will have a terrible appearance. They will be bound with shackles and chains, and their eyes will be downcast, darkened by debasement. A scorching wind will burn their skin, which will be continually replaced to burn yet again, as God describes in verse 4: 56, "Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with new skins." They will be beaten with cudgels made of iron and bound in "a chain which is seventy cubits long" (Qur'an, 69: 32). Their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded with the fire. Boiling water will be poured over their heads, and they will be wearing shirts of tar.
The Qur'an also tells about the terrible food and drink reserved for those in Hell. God announces in verse 69: 36 that they will have "no food except exuding pus" to eat—which people in this world can hardly stand. In the Hell they have entered for forgetting God and pursuing their own passions in this life, they will be made to drink boiling water mixed with pus. And because nothing will pass through their torn throats, they will not be able to swallow. In Hell, God will also make the sinners eat bitter thorny bush and zaqqum (the infernal tree):

The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked, seething in the belly like molten brass, as boiling water bubbles and seethes. (Qur'an, 44: 43-45)

As for those who believe in God and turn to Him, they will not be condemned to this state, but will pass through an easy accounting. Because they did not follow vain philosophies and, in order to please God and fearing the torments of Hell, lived according to the Qur'an, they will receive their eternal reward and be welcomed in Paradise, free from fear, sorrow and sadness. On that day, God says, the faces of believers will be radiant. As God says in the Qur'an (39: 71-73):
The unbelievers will be driven to Hell in companies and when they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to them, "Did Messengers from yourselves not come to you, reciting your Lord's Signs to you and warning you about meeting [Him] on this Day of yours?" They will say, "Indeed they did!" But the sentence about torment will [already] have fallen due upon the deniers of the truth. They will be told, "Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!" And those who heeded their Lord will be driven to the Garden in companies, and when they arrive there, finding its gates open, its custodians will say to them, "Peace be upon you! You have done well so enter it timelessly, for ever."
Everyone should take seriously God's constant warnings that the day of reckoning approaches, that "the Hour is coming without any doubt" (Qur'an, 22: 7). In another verse, God says:

Mankind's Reckoning has drawn very close to them, yet they heedlessly turn away. No fresh reminder comes to them from their Lord without their listening to it as if it was a game. (Qur'an, 21: 1-2)   
On that day, the good will receive a perfect recompense for their deeds, while anyone who committed evil will wish that there were a long span of time between himself and that day. Each individual will go alone into God's presence, where he will be judged with complete fairness:

We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, We will bring it forth. We are sufficient as a Reckoner. (Qur'an, 21: 47)

All man-made philosophies are deceptions that alienate people from a belief in the existence of God and from His service. Buddhism's superficial understanding of morality is completely contrary to human natural pattern in many aspects. To an extent, it lets people avoid the torments of conscience that comes from having no religion and so, functions as a false source of spirituality. Believers in Buddhism console themselves with the idea that they have attained spiritual mastery by inflicting pain on themselves and denying the needs of the body. But there's one basic truth of which they take no notice: that people must realize that they are servants of God. A good deed is of any value only if it is done to consciously serve God and win His pleasure. Bridling the wishes and desires of our hearts carries great value, but only if done to win God's pleasure, and to the extent that He desires. Of those who exert this kind of effort with no view to winning His pleasure, God says that "their actions have come to nothing in the world and the hereafter." (Qur'an, 2: 217)

Buddhism's Idea of the Life of This World

Those who accept the idea of karma believe that their cycle of rebirths will never end—that they live again after every death, until they attain nirvana. And so, they assume that before them lie countless possibilities. Therefore, if someone decides to commit sin, he may think he will be able to atone for it in a later incarnation, even if his very next life is worse than his present one. An understanding founded on such an erroneous foundation cannot restrain a person from committing evil.  :o :o
Attachment to this world is most people's major weakness. They believe in a perverse idea like reincarnation chiefly because they want never to give up earthly temptations. Therefore, only if someone has an accurate conception of the real nature of this worldly life can he radically alter his behavior so as to live morally.
Anyone aware of the real nature of the life of this world knows that he has been created to serve the Lord, his Protector and Helper, Who has created both him and the universe. Also, he knows that God will hold him responsible for all his thoughts, words and deeds, and that he must give an accounting to God after his death. The Lord reveals the reason for the creation of the life of this world in the Qur'an (67: 2): "He Who created death and life to test which of you is best in action. He is the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving."
As this verse states, God has created human beings and placed them in this one life temporarily, as a test. Here, He tries us with the things that happen to us, and causes our lives to continue in order to separate believers from the unbelievers, to purify them of their sins, and to guide them to the moral values that lead to Paradise. In other words, this world is only a place of training, where we can win God's pleasure.
In the Qur'an, verse 2: 21, God reveals that He has created human beings to serve Him: "Mankind! Worship your Lord, Who created you and those before you, so that you may do your duty."
God has clearly indicated the limits that human beings may not transgress, and the kinds of behavior that will win His approval and the kinds that will not. On the basis of their behavior in the world, people will receive reward or punishment in the eternal life to come. This means that every moment we live brings us closer to either Hell or Paradise. God reminds His servants of this reality and warns them against that day in many verses of the Qur'an, including this one (59:18):
You who believe! Heed God and let each self look to what it has sent forward for Tomorrow. Heed God. God is aware of what you do.
Believers who fear God's punishment, serve only Him, obey His commands absolutely, avoid evil and act in ways that will win our Lord's pleasure. To be attached to God with strong bonds of love, fearing Him and heeding His commands and being determined to serve Him—that is the only way to gain moral superiority that a person should commit to. He would never compromise that goal, even if it conflicts with his interests. He may have a few fine moral qualities otherwise, but these will be restricted, short-lived or depend on some condition.
Buddhism also recommends good deeds, of course, but they may have no value in the sight of God. What value lies in a person's doing some good to those around him, if he is ungrateful to God, denying the existence of the One Who created him from nothing? In order for his deeds to have any value, they must be done with faith in God—with a view to gaining His approval, in awe of His glory, obedience, and with awareness of His power. For this reason, believers' superior moral character does not rest on romanticism. Their worship is continual and uninterrupted, as God has commanded in the Qur'an:

God augments those who are guided by giving them greater guidance. In your Lord's sight, right actions that are lasting are better both in reward and end result (Qur'an, 19: 76).

Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him, and the religion belongs to Him, firmly and for ever. So why do you fear anyone other than God? (Qur'an, 16: 52)
Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world. But, in your Lord's sight, right actions that are lasting bring a better reward and are a better basis for hope. (Qur'an, 18: 46)

People must be wary of growing attached to transient and deceptive baubles in this life, because life in this world is very short. Wealth, beauty and worldly possessions are worthless in the afterlife. The buried body will decay; time will destroy material possessions. Everyone will be brought into the presence of God to give an account. Moreover, if you ask a thirty-year-old what he has experienced up to this point, he'll say that his life has passed by very quickly. He may live another thirty or fifty years in the same way, before his life will come to an end.
In several verses, God draws our attention to the fact that the span of life in this world is short; He informs us that in the afterlife, people will openly confess this:

On the day We gather them together—when it will seem if they had tarried no more than an hour of a single day... (Qur'an, 10: 45)

On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they have not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they are deceived. (Qur'an, 30: 55)   

It will be very unwise for a person to be deceived by the transient attractions of this short earthly life and to pay no regard to the afterlife. The day when people will have their account to God is a reality. In the Qur'an (10: 7-8), God commands:
As for those who do not expect to meet Us and are content with the life of this world and at rest in it, and those who are heedless of Our Signs, their shelter will be the Fire because of what they earned.
But to those who are not fooled by the life of this world and choose the endless life of the world to come, God announces good news:

If anyone desires to cultivate the hereafter, We will increase him in his cultivation. If anyone desires to cultivate this world, We will give him some of it but he will have no share in the hereafter. (Qur'an, 42: 20)

Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them to enjoy, the flower of the life of this world, so that We can test them by it. Your Lord's provision is better and longer lasting. (Qur'an, 20: 131)

One reason why Buddhism has come to the world's attention is not because of its existence in the Far East—its traditional home—but thanks to propaganda spread in the West. The beginning of this propaganda goes back as far as the 19th century and attracted more interest in the second half of the 20th century when it became a fad for those looking to be more "original."
The beginning of this fad dates from the pop-culture of the 1960's when a large number of western youth and some western intellectuals turned away from traditional Christianity looking for something else and found what they were seeking in far-eastern religions. The main impetus for this search was the desire to attract interest by going against the established order. When the late George Harrison of the Beatles, who helped define the pop culture of the '60s, stated that he had become a Hindu (a pagan religion that preceded Buddhism) and later recorded his own composition, "My Sweet Lord," a song to Krishna, many Beatles' fans followed suit. John Lennon used Buddhist mantras in his song entitled "Across the Universe." Buddhist hymns, styles of dress, and artworks were very popular among hippies in the '60s and '70s.
Interestingly, the most important architects of popular cultural expressions are imposing Buddhism on Western society. In this process, Hollywood has taken the lead. It's generally accepted that Hollywood reflects the ideas of American society's liberal wing, often supporting anti-religious ideas and values contrary to Christian morality and belief. For example, most films strongly impose the theory of evolution on the minds of viewers. In the evolution-versus-creation argument, "scientific" films are almost always come down on the side of Darwinism. (Hollywood's anti-religious, pro-Darwin propaganda began with the famous film, Inherit the Wind.) And the tendency of today's films to disparage Islam is a highly evident strategy.
But though Hollywood is generally unfavorable towards revealed religions like Christianity and Islam; when it comes to Buddhism, it takes a totally opposite line, depicting this religion in a most attractive light as peaceable and humane. Films like Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt, and Kundun, about the life of the Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorcese, have undertaken to popularizing Buddhism among the movie-going masses.
For spreading Buddhist propaganda, the private lives of actors and actresses are as important as the films they star in. The Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism has declared Steven Seagal, well-known for his roles in action films, to be the reincarnation of a 15th century lama (a Buddhist monk of Tibet or Mongolia)! Famous actor Richard Gere, in addition to writing books promoting Buddhism, has founded the Tibet House in New York with Richard Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman. Other well-known Buddhists include Tina Turner, Harrison Ford, Oliver Stone, Herbie Hancock and Courtney Love.
Of course, a person's private life and personal beliefs concern no one else. People are free to choose any religion they wish. But if these individuals learned about true Islam, certainly their hearts would be warmed. But the picture presented so far brings us to an important conclusion: Buddhism is attracting interest, being adopted and promoted in the West wherever a materialist culture predominates. Materialism Western culture has become alienated from the Judeo-Christian basis of its own spirituality.
But why? To answer this question, we must first determine the basic characteristics of Western materialism. This culture's foundations were laid in the 18th century; its theoretical framework was established in the 19th and—despite the gradual erosion of the theoretical framework—it became a mass movement in the 20th. Essentially, it:
- denies the existence of God and believes the universe to be the result of chance.
- believes that living things arrived at their present state through evolution, and that Darwinism explains the phenomenon of life and the "origin" of species.
- believes that human beings are simply a higher species of animal and downplays the existence of any human spirit.
- rejects the idea of life after death, resurrection, Judgment Day and the existence of an eternal Paradise and Hell.
These assumptions of a materialist culture, every one of them false, naturally contradict all revealed religions. But significantly, all these erroneous assumptions are shared by another culture—Buddhism.


Huxley's Discovery of Buddhism

An atheist religion, Buddhism doesn't accept the existence of God, an everlasting hereafter, Paradise, or Hell. It supposes that the human spirit is no different from that of an animal and believes in continual karmic returns to the natural world. According to Buddhists, a fish could come back as a mammal in a later life, and a human could come back as a worm. This idea of the "transmigration of souls" between species has important parallels with Darwin's theory of evolution.
One Buddhist researcher has described as follows the relation between Buddhism and evolution:
Buddhism. . . is quite happy with the theory of evolution. In fact, Buddhist philosophy actually requires evolution to take place—all things are seen as being transient, constantly becoming, existing for a while, and then fading. The idea of unchanging species would not be compatible with Buddhist ontology.6
For this reason, Darwinists have felt sympathetic toward Buddhism and promoted it ever since the 19th century.
The first to express Darwinist admiration for Buddhism was Thomas H. Huxley who, after Darwin himself proposed his theory, played the next most important role in the spread of Darwinism. Huxley appeared on the scene as Darwin's most passionate supporter and became known as "Darwin's bulldog." His debates with scientists and clergy defending the idea of creation, and the passion of his writings and speeches have made him the 19th century's most famous Darwinist.
One little-known fact about Huxley was his keen interest in Buddhism. Even while struggling with representatives of revealed religions like Judaism and Christianity, he regarded Buddhism as appropriate to the kind of secular civilization that he wanted to see established in the West. This is elaborated in the Philosophy East and West article, "Buddhism in Huxley's Evolution and Ethics," which includes the following description of Buddhism from Huxley's book of that name:
[Buddhism is] a system which knows no God in the Western sense; which denies a soul to man; which counts the belief in immortality a blunder and hope of it a sin; which refuses any efficacy to prayer and sacrifice; which bids men look to nothing but their own effortsfor salvation . . . . yet [it] spread over a considerable moiety of the Old World with marvelous rapidity and is still, with whatever base admixture of foreign superstitions, the dominant creed of a large fraction of mankind.7
The only reason for Huxley's admiration of Buddhism is that it—like Huxley and other Darwinists—did not believe in God.
According to Vijitha Rajapakse, a professor at Hawaii University and the author of "Buddhism in Huxley's Evolution and Ethics," Huxley saw a parallel between Buddhism and the atheistic pagan ideas of ancient Greece. This contributed to his admiration:
Huxley's evident tendency to link Buddhist thought with Western ideas, which comes to the fore strikingly in his comments on the concept of substance, was further exemplified at other levels of his discussion as well. He found the nontheistic stance taken by the early Buddhists to be analogous to the outlook of Heracleitus and referred, in addition, to "many parallelisms of Stoicism and Buddhism.". . .8
Rajapakse notes that some other 18th and 19th century atheists or agnostics were also great admirers of Buddhism. Parallels between Buddhism and the materialist Western philosophy of the time form part of the thought of David Hume, an 18th century Scottish philosopher and atheist with an antipathy towards religion. Rajapakse writes, "Interestingly enough, the parallelisms that exist between Buddhist and Humean standpoints on the question of a substantial soul were duly noted by certain early commentators on Buddhism" and continues:
Mrs. Rhys Davids [a pioneer translator of early Buddhist texts from Paali into English], for example, remarked that "with regard to the belief in an indwelling spirit or ego, permanent, unchanging, unsuffering, Buddhism took the standpoint two thousand, four hundred years ago of our own Hume of two centuries ago."9
As Rajapakse maintains in his article, Buddhism intrigued many thinkers in Victorian England because they found it in harmony with the ascendant philosophies of the 19th century—atheism and Darwinism. Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous German philosopher, looked with favor on Buddhism for the same reason.

Nietzsche's Sympathy for Buddhism

Nietzsche, one of the 19th century's most avid atheist thinkers, nurtured a passionate hatred for Christianity and promoted in its stead a pagan culture and morality. His views helped form fascism in the 20th century, especially Nazism. Nietzsche battled with Christianity for espousing the virtues of compassion, mercy, humility and trust in God. Therefore, in fact, he was also against the moral principles of Islam and genuine Judaism. He hated revealed religions not only because of their moral principles, but mainly because of his fanatic atheism. In his article on Nietzsche, American researcher Jason DeBoer writes that "atheism is a crucial part of Nietzsche's thought," adding that:
His is not an unbiased critique: Nietzsche burns with hatred toward Christianity, and his atheistic writings are extremely vitriolic.10
As we can imagine, Nietzsche directed his hatred at revealed religions only, not at pagan ones. On the contrary, as DeBoer writes:
. . . Nietzsche, although one of the fiercest atheists in history, was in fact not entirely anti-religious . . . [He] respected and admired many of the aspects of other religions, including paganism and even Buddhism.11
In his review of Robert G. Morrison's book Nietzche and Buddhism:A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities, English academic David R. Loy says the following on this matter:
Comparing Nietzsche with Buddhism has become something of a cottage industry, and for good reason: there seems to be a deep resonance between them. Morrison points out that they share many common features: both emphasise the centrality of humans in a godless cosmos and neither looks to any external being or power for their respective solutions to the problem of existence . . . Both understand [a] human being as an ever-changing flux of multiple psychophysical forces, and within this flux there is no autonomous or unchanging subject ('ego', 'soul').12
The sources of these erroneous ideas that Nietzsche shared with Buddhism were certainly nothing more than ignorance and arrogance. Anyone who looks at the universe and the world of nature with conscious intelligence can see clear proofs of God's existence. This has been supported by modern, scientific discoveries: the Big Bang theory and the Anthropic Principle (the principle that every detail in the universe has been carefully arranged to make human life possible) have crushed the idea of a godless universe as proposed by Nietzsche and other atheists. Science has clear proofs that the universe was created and ordered in an extraordinary balance. These proofs show the invalidity of Darwin's theory of evolution, but do support the existence of an intelligent design and prove the truth of creation. The results of scientific and sociological discoveries have also discredited the ideas of 19th century thinkers like Marx, Freud, and Durkheim. (For more information, please refer to Harun Yahya's article "A Turning Point in History: The Fall of Atheism" at www.harunyahya.com/70the_fall_of_atheism _scie34.php)


Buddhism: False Spirituality to a Materialist Culture

Ironically, this scientific testimony against atheism is closely related to why Buddhism is spreading in the Western world. Architects of atheism and materialist culture see that their theory is collapsing. To prevent the rapidly growing movement towards revealed religions, they counter it by promoting pagan faiths such as Buddhism. In other words, Buddhism—and other Far Eastern religions like it—are spiritual reinforcements of materialism.
But why should materialist Western culture need any such reinforcement? English writers Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln have examined the development (and degeneration) of ideas in the Western world over the past 2,000 years. In the 20th century, they explain, the Western world has fallen into a "crisis of meaning." In other words, the way of life imposed on Western societies by materialist philosophy has stripped people's lives of meaning by cutting them off from their belief in God's existence and from worship of Him. These three authors put it this way:
Life became increasingly bereft of meaning, devoid of significance — a wholly random phenomenon, lived for no particular purpose.13
Adding to this crisis of meaning, the collapse of materialist theories on a scientific level has opened the way for a new return to revealed religions, especially Islam. For this reason, the monotheistic faiths are growing in their numbers of adherents; the number of those who believe and practice their religion is increasing; and religious concepts and values are assuming much more important places in social life.
Buddhism and similar pagan beliefs are eager to curtail this movement by offering, to those confused by the crisis of meaning brought on by the materialist culture, a false route to salvation. Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and versions of it like the Hare Krishna sect, Wicca and other New Age trends that bring together various pagan teachings, UFO religions that busy themselves with so-called holy messages believed to have come from space—these are all false teachings embraced by those who do not want to break with atheist and materialist dogmas, while eagerly search for spirituality at the same time. Besides, many who become Buddhists are largely influenced by a desire to unwittingly and blindly imitate something they do not understand, simply to attract attention and pretent that they are, indeed, aware and sophisticated.
To understand why these doctrines are unfounded, we need only pass them through the sieve of logic. We have already examined the concept of karma, the foundation of several Far Eastern religions, and shown it to have no rational basis. (For a more detailed discussion, see Harun Yahya's Islam and Karma, Ta Ha Publishers, London, 2003) These religions do not believe in the existence of God, nor in an ultimate place of divine judgment for mankind. How, then, can they believe that every person will receive a reward for what he has done—in a subsequent life? Who will determine this? Those who revere "Extraterrestrials" also believe in similar nonsense. How can a person build a philosophy of life on UFOs, whose reality is quite debatable? Even if beings from outer space did exist, they too would, necessarily, have to have been created. But what is the guarantee that they could show humans the true path?
Those caught up in such superstitious ideas should think about these words of God from the Qur'an (56: 57): "We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth?" They should follow His way, as He has commanded:

This is My Path, and it is straight, so follow it. Do not follow other ways, or you will become cut off from His Way. That is what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you may do your duty. (Qur'an, 6: 153)


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Budha Seorang Nabiyullah(?)

Teman, pernahkah anda memperhatikan ajaran agama Budha? Agama Budha memiliki ajaran moral yang sangat luar biasa tingginya. Mungkinkah ajaran-ajaran moral yang tinggi itu seratus persen buatan manusia? Zaman kehidupan Budha berada pada kisaran abad ke-5 SM. Manusia pada zaman itu hidup dalam kebodohan dan kejahilan luar biasa. Jadi sangat kecil kemungkinan bahwa ajaran Budha adalah seratus persen buatan manusia. Kemungkinan yang lebih besar adalah bahwa ajaran Budha datang sebagai wahyu dari Allah kepada Budha untuk diwartakan kepada kaumnya.

Ada banyak alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

"Para Utusan (Nabi & Rasul), mereka mengemban kabar baik dan memberi peringatan, agar manusia tak mempunyai alasan untuk menentang Allah setelah (datangnya) para Utusan. Dan Allah itu Maha-perkasa, Maha-bijaksana" (Q.S. 4:165).

Seorang Rasul biasanya diutus untuk suatu kaum dengan tujuan yang digambarkan dalam ayat di atas. Mengemban kabar baik berarti menunjukan hakekat-hakekat kebenaran dalam konsep Ketuhanan yang jelas serta membawa nubuat-nubuat masa depan yang baik. Memberi peringatan berarti meluruskan 'penyimpangan' –baik jasmaniah maupun ruhiyah– masyarakat.

Dari uraian tersebut, maka bisa diperoleh sekurangnya 6 alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

1. Sangat sedikit sekali kisah-kisah Budha yang sanad-nya dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Semua sanad tentang Budha tak ada yang sampai langsung kepada Budha. Jadi pendakwaan bahwa Budha adalah Tuhan atau bahwa ia seorang pemakan daging babi sangat diragukan. Beberapa ahli seperti Vedhayarti, E.W. Wallis Budge, dan Joseph Edkins, pernah membahas masalah ini secara khusus dalam buku-buku mereka.

2. Budha berdakwah di tengah suatu kaum yang jahil, seperti halnya Muhammad Saw berdakwah di tengah kaum Quraisy. Masyarakat Asia Selatan di masa Budha hidup adalah penyembah banyak tuhan (dewa) yang membagi masyarakat ke dalam kelas-kelas berdasarkan keturunan (kasta). Ajaran Budha menghapuskan semua itu. Inti ajaran yang berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu.

3. Budha 'mengalami pencerahan' (Maitreya) saat menyepi di bawah pohon Kalpataru, sama halnya dengan Muhammad Saw. yang memperoleh 'pencerahan' saat menyepi di sebuah gua di Bukit Hira. Asumsi yang paling memungkinkan adalah Malaikat Jibril as. telah mendatangi Budha di lembah Bodhisatva untuk memberikan wahyu tentang hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya.

4. Budha adalah seorang pangeran yang meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Bandingkan ini dengan Muhammad yang rela kehilangan posisi kebangsawanan Quraisy demi menyiarkan dakwah Islam. Sejarah mengisahkan bahwa para Nabi biasa diuji dengan terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarga atau kaumnya. Nabi Yusuf as terusir ke Mesir. Nabi Musa as terusir dari Mesir. Nabi Ayyub as terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarganya setelah menderita penyakit kulit. Nabi Daud as diusir oleh anaknya hingga mengungsi ke bukit Zion. Nabi Ibrahim as. pun terusir dari Babilonia.

5. Ada Hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas ra. bahwa ada seorang nabi yang dilahirkan sebagai anak raja. Allah mewahyukan kepadanya: "Aku akan mematikan engkau segera, karena itu serahkanlah kerajaan itu kepada orang lain sebagai pewarismu, dia harus menyembah Tuhan pada waktu malam dan menjalani puasa sepanjang hari. Dia tidak boleh marah selagi mengadili orang". Para mufassir seperti Razi dan Mujahid menyebut bahwa nabi yang dimaksud adalah Dzulkifli as. Kisah Dzulkifli as. ini benar-benar sama dengan jalan hidup Budha. Bisa jadi Dzulkifli as. yang banyak disebut dalam Al Quran adalah Sidharta Gautama.

Tambahan, Al Quran terbiasa menyebut nama para nabi tidak dengan nama aslinya. Misalnya Isa as. Secara linguistik, tidak mungkin bernama 'Isa' karena 'Isa' adalah nama Arab. Isa as. menceramahi kaumnya dengan bahasa Aramaik, sehingga kemungkinan nama aslinya adalah 'Essho' atau Esau (bahasa Ibrani).

"Dan Ismail dan Idris dan Dhul-Kifli; semua itu orang yang sabar" (Q.S. 21:85).

6. Tuhan menyebut seorang nabi bernama Dzulkifli yang jelas bukan dari ras Israil atau Arab. Kisah Dzulkifli sebagaimana diberikan oleh Ibnu Abbas tidak ada padanannya dalam tradisi-tradisi Yahudi dan Kristiani dan kitab-kitab suci mereka. Mujahid memang mengira bahwa Dzulkifli adalah nama lain dari Ilyas as. dan Abu-Musa Asy'ari berkata bahwa Dzulkifli bukanlah seorang nabi. Tetapi Hasan ra. mengatakan kepada kita bahwa dia adalah seorang nabi karena namanya disebut di dalam surat 'Para Nabi' (Al-Anbiyya). Nama Dzul-Kifli disebut bersama-sama dengan Ismail dan Idris yang diakui sebagai nabi. Karena itu, dia seorang nabi juga.

7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

"Ibunda Maitreya kelak seorang bangsawan dan rupawan. Dia adalah puteranya yang pertama" (Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10).

Selain itu, masih banyak alasan lain mengapa Buddha adalah Dzulkifli yang diceritakan di dalam Al Quran. Dia beriman kepada kitab(wahyu)-nya sendiri dan meramalkan datangnya Muhammad (Maitreya Buddha) yang mirip dirinya. Karena itu, Allah menyebutnya 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda).

"Dan (Kami telah mengutus) para Utusan, yang sebelumnya telah Kami kisahkan kepada engkau, dan para Utusan yang tak Kami kisahkan kepada engkau".
(Q.S. 4:164)

7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

Maitreya artinya penuh cinta kasih...Mohammed artinya Moha(tidak tahu) + media(perantara)

Reply #1 by Kelana

Salam,
Saya akan meluruskan informasi yang tidak tepat agar tidak menjadi sebuah fitnah belaka. Mari kita bahas.

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Teman, pernahkah anda memperhatikan ajaran agama Budha? Agama Budha memiliki ajaran moral yang sangat luar biasa tingginya. Mungkinkah ajaran-ajaran moral yang tinggi itu seratus persen buatan manusia? Zaman kehidupan Budha berada pada kisaran abad ke-5 SM. Manusia pada zaman itu hidup dalam kebodohan dan kejahilan luar biasa. Jadi sangat kecil kemungkinan bahwa ajaran Budha adalah seratus persen buatan manusia. Kemungkinan yang lebih besar adalah bahwa ajaran Budha datang sebagai wahyu dari Allah kepada Budha untuk diwartakan kepada kaumnya.

Pertama. Agama Buddha (yang benar menggunakan 2 huruf "b") bukanlah agama wahyu. Anggapan bahwa agama Buddha adalah agama wahyu merupakan wujud pikiran sempit yang menganggap bahwa manusia hanyalah boneka yang tidak bisa memaksimalkan budi pekertinya sampai setinggi-tingginya. Ajaran Buddha adalah wujud dari pemahaman TANPA BIAS dari manusia terhadap fenomena kehidupan. Dengan pemahaman yang mendalam (INSIGHT) tanpa bias bisa melihat permasalah kehidupan dengan jernih dan menemukan solusinya, termasuk di dalamnya mengenai kemoralan. Inilah mengapa ajaran Buddha begitu tinggi.

Kedua. Alangkah naifnya menggunakan alasan bahwa pada masa abad ke-5 SM merupakan masa kebodohan dan kejahilan dan menggeneralisasikan bahwa semua manusia pada masa itu adalah bodoh dan jahat sehingga muncul wahyu. Pada masa yang sama di benua lain muncul ahli-ahli filsafat ternama seperti Socrates yang jelas bukan berdasarkan wahyu. Tidak ada bukti untuk turunnya wahyu dan dikaitkan pada masa jahiliah.

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Ada banyak alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

"Para Utusan (Nabi & Rasul), mereka mengemban kabar baik dan memberi peringatan, agar manusia tak mempunyai alasan untuk menentang Allah setelah (datangnya) para Utusan. Dan Allah itu Maha-perkasa, Maha-bijaksana" (Q.S. 4:165).

Seorang Rasul biasanya diutus untuk suatu kaum dengan tujuan yang digambarkan dalam ayat di atas. Mengemban kabar baik berarti menunjukan hakekat-hakekat kebenaran dalam konsep Ketuhanan yang jelas serta membawa nubuat-nubuat masa depan yang baik. Memberi peringatan berarti meluruskan 'penyimpangan' –baik jasmaniah maupun ruhiyah– masyarakat.

Bukankah lebih sah dan meyakinkan jika yang ditampilkan adalah justru literatur dari agama Buddha itu sendiri dan bukan justru klaiman dari kitab agama lain yang tidak ada kaitannya?

Dalam Kitab Suci Tipitaka,Ayacana Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya 6.1), setelah Gotama mencapai pencerahan Sempurna, Beliau mengatakan: "Dhamma yang telah Ku-capai (attain, reach) ini sangatlah dalam....."

Di sini jelas bahwa Dhamma (bahasa Pali) atau Dharma (bahasa Sanskerta) atau Kebenaran atau sekarang dikenal dengan ajaran Buddha, bukanlah wahyu yang diberikan dari langit, tapi sesuatu yang DICAPAI atau DIRAIH, diperjuangkan.

Reply #2 by Kelana

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Dari uraian tersebut, maka bisa diperoleh sekurangnya 6 alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

1. Sangat sedikit sekali kisah-kisah Budha yang sanad-nya dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Semua sanad tentang Budha tak ada yang sampai langsung kepada Budha. Jadi pendakwaan bahwa Budha adalah Tuhan atau bahwa ia seorang pemakan daging babi sangat diragukan. Beberapa ahli seperti Vedhayarti, E.W. Wallis Budge, dan Joseph Edkins, pernah membahas masalah ini secara khusus dalam buku-buku mereka.

Argumen ini menandakan miskinnya Penulis dalam pengetahuan mengenai agama Buddha. Pertama, umat Buddha sekalipun tidak pernah menganggap Buddha sebagai Tuhan. Meskipun bukan Tuhan, bukan berarti langsung merupakan seorang nabi. Kedua. Apa yang dimakan oleh Buddha apakah babi atau bukan, tidak ada kaitannya dengan menjadi seorang nabi. Sekarang banyak orang yang bervegetarian tidak makan babi, apakah ia juga seorang nabi? Pada masa kehidupan Buddha, di India, juga hidup seorang pemimpin agama yang juga cukup ternama yaitu Mahavira, penemu agama Jain, dan ia seorang vegetarian. Apakah ia juga seorang nabi? Sangatlah tidak masuk diakal tuhan mengutus 2 nabi pada masa yang sama, daerah yang sama tetapi ajaran yang berbeda. Jadi argumen dari penulis ini sangat absurd.

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2. Budha berdakwah di tengah suatu kaum yang jahil, seperti halnya Muhammad Saw berdakwah di tengah kaum Quraisy. Masyarakat Asia Selatan di masa Budha hidup adalah penyembah banyak tuhan (dewa) yang membagi masyarakat ke dalam kelas-kelas berdasarkan keturunan (kasta). Ajaran Budha menghapuskan semua itu. Inti ajaran yang berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu.

Memang benar bahwa Buddha berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu. Buddha juga menolak sistem kasta. Namun perlu dicatat bahwa Buddha tidak menolak keberadaan dewa, tetapi dewa diposisikan sebagai layaknya makhluk yang bisa mati meskipun usia mereka panjang. Dan juga perlu dicatat bahwa Buddha menolak keberadaan isvara (bhs Sanskerta) atau issara (bhs Pali) atau bahasa Indonesianya adalah Penguasa Semesta Alam, Bapak Semua Makhluk, The Creator, Tuhan Personal, yang biasa dianut oleh kaum monotheis. Meskipun demikian agama Buddha BUKAN ATHEIS karena masih mengakui keberadaan para dewa dan memiliki nilai-nilai kemoralan yang tinggi, sehingga kini agama Buddha digolongkan sebagai agama NON-Theis.
Alangkah kontranya jika ajaran yang bersifat NON-THEIS tapi diklaim sebagai wahyu. Jadi argumen kedua dari penulis ini sangat absurd.

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3. Budha 'mengalami pencerahan' (Maitreya) saat menyepi di bawah pohon Kalpataru, sama halnya dengan Muhammad Saw. yang memperoleh 'pencerahan' saat menyepi di sebuah gua di Bukit Hira. Asumsi yang paling memungkinkan adalah Malaikat Jibril as. telah mendatangi Budha di lembah Bodhisatva untuk memberikan wahyu tentang hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya.

Ini bukti kedua bahwa Penulis kurang memahami agama Buddha.
Buddha mengalami Pencerahan?? Tepatnya adalah Petapa Gotama mengalami Pencerahan menjadi Buddha. Pencerahan dalam bahasa Sanskerta atau Pali adalah 'Bodhi' bukan 'Maitreya'. Maitreya sendiri berasal dari kata Maitri (bhs Sanskerta) yang berarti Cinta Kasih. Buddha mencapai Pencerahan di Hutan Gaya (sekarang disebut Bodh Gaya, di wilayah Bihar, India), bukan lembah Bodhisattva. Dan dalam perjuanganNya mencapai Pencerahan Sempurna tidak ada satupun makhluk atau siapapun yang memberikan wahyu kepada Petapa Gotama. Tidak ada dalam literatur manapun yang mengatakan adanya wahyu. Jadi ini adalah asumsi yang tidak mendasar sama sekali, hanya rekayasa yang dipaksakan.

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4. Budha adalah seorang pangeran yang meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Bandingkan ini dengan Muhammad yang rela kehilangan posisi kebangsawanan Quraisy demi menyiarkan dakwah Islam. Sejarah mengisahkan bahwa para Nabi biasa diuji dengan terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarga atau kaumnya. Nabi Yusuf as terusir ke Mesir. Nabi Musa as terusir dari Mesir. Nabi Ayyub as terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarganya setelah menderita penyakit kulit. Nabi Daud as diusir oleh anaknya hingga mengungsi ke bukit Zion. Nabi Ibrahim as. pun terusir dari Babilonia.

Pertama. Pangeran Siddhattha TIDAK diusir dari keluargaNya. Ia meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Jadi berbeda.

Kedua. Tidak ada hubungannya antara diusir atau tidak dengan menjadi seorang nabi. Apakah semua orang yang diusir dari keluarganya dan ditolak berarti menjadi nabi? Tidak. Banyak orang yang diusir keluarganya karena ia berbuat jahat bahkan ada yang diusir karena orang itu mengidap penyakit menular.  Jadi argumen ini juga absurd.

Reply #3 by Kelana

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5. Ada Hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas ra. bahwa ada seorang nabi yang dilahirkan sebagai anak raja. Allah mewahyukan kepadanya: "Aku akan mematikan engkau segera, karena itu serahkanlah kerajaan itu kepada orang lain sebagai pewarismu, dia harus menyembah Tuhan pada waktu malam dan menjalani puasa sepanjang hari. Dia tidak boleh marah selagi mengadili orang". Para mufassir seperti Razi dan Mujahid menyebut bahwa nabi yang dimaksud adalah Dzulkifli as. Kisah Dzulkifli as. ini benar-benar sama dengan jalan hidup Budha. Bisa jadi Dzulkifli as. yang banyak disebut dalam Al Quran adalah Sidharta Gautama.

Tambahan, Al Quran terbiasa menyebut nama para nabi tidak dengan nama aslinya. Misalnya Isa as. Secara linguistik, tidak mungkin bernama 'Isa' karena 'Isa' adalah nama Arab. Isa as. menceramahi kaumnya dengan bahasa Aramaik, sehingga kemungkinan nama aslinya adalah 'Essho' atau Esau (bahasa Ibrani).

"Dan Ismail dan Idris dan Dhul-Kifli; semua itu orang yang sabar" (Q.S. 21:85).

Al Qur'an sedikit sekali mengisahkan riwayat nabi Dzulkifli dan kepada siapa ia diutus. Mari kita menyimak kisahnya dari:
http://rasulullahsaw.atwiki.com/page/NABI%20DZULKIFLI%20A.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel

Dalam kisah tersebut jelas Dzulkifli (Basyar) atau Ezekiel (bahasa Ibrani) putra Nabi Ayyub AS yang berdomisili di Timur Tengah, berbeda dengan Pangeran Siddhattha (calon Buddha) yang lahir di India Utara. Dzulkifli bukan keturunan langsung dari raja yang bertahta tetapi baru diangkat setelah ada pemilihan. Berbeda dengan Pangeran Siddhattha yang merupakan keturunan langsung Raja Suddhodana.

Bahkan kontroversi kata "dzu" pun tidak bisa membuktikan kebenarannya bahwa "dzu" mengacu pada Kapilavatthu di India.

Tempat kelahiran serta nama orang tuanya saja sudah berbeda, jadi tidaklah mungkin nabi Dzulkifli adalah Buddha Gotama.

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6. Tuhan menyebut seorang nabi bernama Dzulkifli yang jelas bukan dari ras Israil atau Arab. Kisah Dzulkifli sebagaimana diberikan oleh Ibnu Abbas tidak ada padanannya dalam tradisi-tradisi Yahudi dan Kristiani dan kitab-kitab suci mereka. Mujahid memang mengira bahwa Dzulkifli adalah nama lain dari Ilyas as. dan Abu-Musa Asy'ari berkata bahwa Dzulkifli bukanlah seorang nabi. Tetapi Hasan ra. mengatakan kepada kita bahwa dia adalah seorang nabi karena namanya disebut di dalam surat 'Para Nabi' (Al-Anbiyya). Nama Dzul-Kifli disebut bersama-sama dengan Ismail dan Idris yang diakui sebagai nabi. Karena itu, dia seorang nabi juga.

Mengenai hal ini sudah disampaikan di atas. Nama Dzulkifli (Hizqil) disebut juga Basyar atau Ezekiel dalam bahasa Ibrani. Jadi jelas Dzulkifli berasal dari Timur Tengah, bukan dari India.

Meskipun Dzulkifli seorang nabi, bukan berarti Dzulkifli adalah Buddha Gotama, karena sudah disampaikan dalam penjelasan di atas mengenai domisili dan nama orang tua yang berbeda antara dua tokoh.

Reply #4 by Kelana

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7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

"Ibunda Maitreya kelak seorang bangsawan dan rupawan. Dia adalah puteranya yang pertama" (Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10).

Selain itu, masih banyak alasan lain mengapa Buddha adalah Dzulkifli yang diceritakan di dalam Al Quran. Dia beriman kepada kitab(wahyu)-nya sendiri dan meramalkan datangnya Muhammad (Maitreya Buddha) yang mirip dirinya. Karena itu, Allah menyebutnya 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda).

"Dan (Kami telah mengutus) para Utusan, yang sebelumnya telah Kami kisahkan kepada engkau, dan para Utusan yang tak Kami kisahkan kepada engkau".
(Q.S. 4:164).

Buddha TIDAK PERNAH membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. Usaha penyamaan antara Maitreya dengan Muhammad Saw adalah usaha propaganda agar umat Budddha beralih agama. Dan artikel ini selalu di copy-paste dari situs yang satu ke situs yang lain tanpa ada konfirmasi terhadap sumber-sumber yang saih yaitu kitab suci Tipitaka.

Di sini nampaknya Penulis mulai linglung sehingga ia menghubungkan nubuat Buddha terhadap Maitreya dengan Dzulkifli. Lalu apa hubungannya nubuat Buddha mengenai Maitreya dengan Dzulkifli ? Apakah Dzulkifli juga membawa kabar nubuat mengenai Muhammad? Jika Dzulkifli adalah Buddha maka Dzulkifli membawa kabar nubuat akan Muhammad, tetapi kenyataaanya tidak ada kisah mengenai hal itu.

Pertama. Menurut Kitab Suci Tipitaka, Cakkavattisihanada Sutta (Digha Nikaya 26) Maitreya (bhs Sanskerta) atau Metteyya (bhs Pali)  akan dilahirkan di Jambudvipa atau India pada sekitar ratusan juta tahun yang akan datang. Sedangkan Muhammad lahir di Mekkah pada sekitar tahun 570 masehi. Jelas tahun dan wilayah yang berbeda.

Kedua. Maitreya berasal dari bahasa Sanskerta yang berarti dari kata 'Maitri' yang berarti Cinta Kasih. Jadi sangatlah salah jika Maitreya berarti cahaya. Sehingga tidaklah sama dengan cahaya semesta yang dikaitkan dengan sebutan untuk Muhammad. Dalam suatu perbandiangan hendaknya yang diperbandingkan memiliki tingkat yang sama, misalnya nama dengan nama, julukan dengan julukan, tempat dengan tempat. Penulis nampaknya tidak memahami mengenai perbandingan.

Ketiga. Julukan sebagai cahaya tidak hanya dilabelkan pada Maitreya tetapi juga Yesus, Khrisna dan tokoh-tokoh agama lainnya. Jadi terlalu naif jika julukan cahaya dikaitkan dengan Maitreya sebagai Muhammad saja.

Keempat. Penulis mengacu pada literatur yang salah dan tidak jelas. Penulis menulis: Saddharam Pundrik Bab 94. Kita hanya akan menemukan sedikit keterangan dalam pencarian dengan Google dan itu pun akan mengacu pada artikel yang sama yang berasal dari copy paste tanpa konfirmasi. Judul aslinya adalah Saddharmapundarika Sutra merupakan salah satu literatur Buddhis ternama namun tidak semua tradisi/mazab mengakuinya karena baru muncul abad pertama masehi. Selain itu literatur ini hanya ada 27 BAB, jadi tidak ada BAB 94. Bagaimana Penulis bisa memberikan bukti yang tidak jelas seperti ini? Jadi bisa dipastikan argumen mengenai Maitreya dengan simbolis cahaya terakhir juga merupakan hal yang absurd.

Kelima. Penulis tidak menggunakan literatur yang saih. Sacred Books of the East jelas merupakan buku kompilasi yang bahkan mungkin Penulis (artikel Budha Seorang Nabiyullah) sendiri belum melihatnya. Buku ini merupakan kumpulan literatur-literatur agama dari Hindu, Jain sampai Buddha berjumlah 50 volume karya terjemahan beberapa sarjana . Disusun oleh Max Muller. Penulis tidak menjelaskan pada bagian mana kalimat "Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya", berada.

Beruntunglah kita berada di era internet. Kita bisa melihat Sacred Books of the East (SBE)di:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/sbe/ . Ternyata isi  SBE tidaklah murni literatur dari kitab suci suatu agama tetapi ada komentar-komentar dari si penerjemah yang notabene memiliki pemikiran monotheis dengan konsep kenabian, sehingga sangat kuat indikasinya bahwa kalimat tersebut merupakan komentar si penerjemah, dan sudah pasti kita tidak akan menemukannya di kitab suci Buddhis karena tidak ditemukan istilah nabi ataupun istilah lain yang mengacu pada kenabian. Jadi, lagi-lagi pengajuan literatur ini tidaklah mendasar.

Keenam. Lagi-lagi pengajuan literatur yang tidak jelas. Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10.  Seharusnya  Mahavastu  dan Lalitavistara, yang mayoritas mengenai kelahiran Buddha Gotama. Meskipun ada mengenai Maitreya namun berbeda dengan kehidupan Muhammad yang sebagai yatim piatu dan penuh dengan peperangan.

Ketujuh. Tidak ada hubungannya antara arti nama 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda) dengan Buddha karena arti Buddha sendiri berarti Yang Sadar BUKAN penerima pahala ganda.


KESIMPULAN:
Semua sudah disampaikan perbedaan baik dari istilah-istilah, nama, lokasi, waktu, latar belakang keluarga, dan dapat disimpulkan bahwa Buddha BUKAN-lah Dzulkifli dan Maitreya BUKAN-lah Muhammad. Pengajuan literatur yang tidak jelas membuktikan adanya indikasi propaganda penipuan. Dan dengan sanggahan ini, semoga pembaca tidak lagi mempercayai tulisan-tulisan yang tidak dapat dipertanggungjawabkan kebenarannya dan tidak secara gegabah mengkopi tanpa melakukan konfirmasi dan uji materi.

Terima Kasih.

Sum

Quote from: william_phang on 20 January 2009, 04:49:46 PM
Melihat atau menganalisa Ajaran Buddha dari kaca mata Al-Quran ya tidak akan pernah bisa yambung.... :))

mungkin lebih tepaynya, tidak nyambung dalam konsep tauhid.

Begitulah akibatnya kalau seorang manusia telah tertutup pandangannya oleh karena picik dan dangkalnya ilmu sebagai seorang yang hanya berpangkal percaya pada sebuah kitab yang tidak jelas asal-usulnya (tidak diselidiki pula)... Pandangannya hanya seputar "bumi & sejarahnya", "eksistensi manusia berdasarkan awal keingatan akan eksistensinya", "dunia-jagad sebatas kulit", dan "tuhan".

Ingin meluruskan orang-orang dengan pandangan seperti itu?
(Terkadang) Anda butuh usaha yang ekstra keras....!!!

Tapi orang2 seperti itu mungkin bisa menemukan secercah sinar kebenaran di kehidupan ini, atau mungkin, kalau kamma baiknya mencukupi, ia baru bisa menemukan sinar kebenaran itu di kehidupan mendatang...

klo, suka menganggap agama sendiri paling bener dan menjelek-jelekan agama org lain (padahal gak tau apa2)
harusnya berkaca dulu (yg banyak melakukan anarki siapa ya ?)
jadi ingat baca2 di situs ini /
dulunya situs tsb pernh diblok, sekrg udh bisa dibuka lg. terakhir gw baca bahwa putra hamas telah murtad (sorry jd gosip)

kita tidak bisa menggunakan satu keyakinan untuk menilai keyakinan yang lain. hal ini seperti mau membeli mobil. ada yang percaya toyota lebih bagus. ada yang percaya honda, suzuki.sudah pasti setiap perusahaan mengklaim produknya paling bagus.kalau mau menilai agama buddha dgn al'quran.bagaimana kalau saya menilai al'quran dgn pendapat pribadi saya?menurut al'quran (yang menurut anda plg benar), manusia pertama adalah adam dan hawa. coba anda pikir, mungkin ga anjing kampung kawin dengan anjing kampung lahir anjing pudel? kalo menurut anda ga mungkin katakan saja 'go to hell with my al'quran'

islam untuk muslim, buddha untuk buddhist gitu aja kok repot.

Ini tulisan paling katrok yg pernah gue baca......dogma tertanam terlalu dalam di otaknya ..wakakakkakakkkkkkkkk :))

Sejujurnya gue males komentar soal Harun Yahya , dkk. Mereka "katrok group". :))